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The Suffocating Night
First published 1998
As news of the Korean War reaches Lydmouth, a reporter is murdered at the Bathurst Arms and families squatting in a former military camp face eviction. New evidence also revives the unresolved disappearance of a local teenager, linking present violence with a case the town has tried to forget.
Jill Francis and Richard Thornhill can no longer deny their feelings for one another, but the investigation makes their private choices inseparable from professional duty. The pressure of housing shortage, political anxiety and wartime memory creates an atmosphere in which several people have reason to silence the truth.
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