The Treason of the Ghosts

Name: The Treason of the Ghosts
Rating: 4.45 (2742 reviews)

by Paul Doherty Book 12 in the Hugh Corbett Mysteries series.

First published 2000

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Hugh Corbett returns to the Suffolk village of Melford after the son of a man executed for a series of murders claims that his father was wrongly condemned. The accusation becomes urgent when another killing follows the same pattern, suggesting that the original murderer may have remained free while an innocent man died.

Corbett has to reopen events that villagers have spent five years trying to forget. Old testimony, local rivalries and fear of the supposed 'ghosts' of earlier crimes make it difficult to determine who lied during the first investigation. The case becomes both a hunt for a continuing serial killer and an inquiry into how a miscarriage of justice was allowed to satisfy a frightened community.