Death on a Branch Line

Name: Death on a Branch Line
Rating: 3.78 (354 reviews)

by Andrew Martin Book 5 in the Jim Stringer series.

First published 2008

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Yorkshire, summer 1911. Railway detective Jim Stringer is sent into the countryside with only a short time to prevent a killing that appears to have been announced before it happens. The branch-line setting looks quiet, but the case draws him into a network of family secrets, political anxieties and people whose loyalties extend well beyond the local railway.

As Jim tries to understand the threatened murder, the investigation expands into a conspiracy with international implications. German espionage fears and the growing tensions of pre-war Europe intrude on the apparent stability of rural Edwardian England, while the railway provides both the route through the mystery and the infrastructure on which movement, communication and surveillance depend.