The Water Clock
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The Cambridgeshire Fens. Two separate victims, linked to one terrifying event in 1966. As reporter Philip Dryden investigates, he is forced to confront the night that changed his life forever.
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Deze serie volgt een vastberaden journalist die zich een weg baant door de verraderlijke wereld van misdaad en intrige in de Engelse Fens. Elke zaak dompelt hem dieper onder in duistere geheimen die de schijnbaar rustige façade van zijn gemeenschap bedreigen. Lezers kunnen meeslepende mysteries, een levendig weergegeven omgeving en een scherpe verkenning van de menselijke natuur verwachten.
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In the Cambridgeshire fens two corpses are found - both linking back to a terrifying event in 1966. More than a great story for journalist Philip Dryden, these murders may hold the key to a personal mystery. Who saved his life two years ago? And, more importantly, who left his wife to die? schovat popis
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Summer, 1976. A plane crashes on a farm in the Cambridgeshire fens. Out of the flames walks young Maggie Beck, clutching a baby in her arms. Twenty-seven years later, investigative journalist Philip Dryden - visiting his wife, Laura, in hospital - is witness to Maggie's deathbed confession.
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The Fire Baby
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Philip Dryden is witness to Maggie Beck's deathbed confession, and a tragic plane crash 27 year previously, suddenly becomes the focus of a murder investigation.
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The Moon Tunnel
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When archaeologists unearth a body in the escape tunnel of an Ely POW camp, Philip Dryden's interest is peaked. Why was the man crawling into the camp, and not out.?
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Philip Dryden is reporting on an archaeological dig at the old POW camp, when a body is uncovered. But there is something odd: the man appears to have been shot in the head, and the position indicates that he was trying to get into the camp, not escape it. It's a puzzle which excites Dryden far more than the archaeologists or the police.
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A man lies hidden in an abandoned boat. Stifling screams, he draws a knife across his arm, letting the blood flow free. Soon he'll be dead - and life can begin again. Three decades later Declan McIlroy, a 39-year-old loner, is found frozen to death in his flat as Arctic temperatures grip the cathedral city of Ely. His is not the only cold death that winter, but nevertheless reporter Philip Dryden has worrying doubts - for it seems Declan may not have been alone as he slowly froze to death . . . Dryden's suspicions harden when days later he finds the body of Declan's best friend Joe - frozen within a shell of ice on the doorstep of his secluded Fenland farmhouse. Soon Dryden is picking his way along a disturbing trail of cruelty and betrayal to a brilliantly executed crime. And to a chilling, half-remembered mystery from his own childhood . . .
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After seventeen years of abandonment for military training, the once crime-free hamlet of Jude's Ferry is disrupted when reporter Philip Dryden joins the Territorial Army. Its peaceful history is shattered during an exercise in the deserted village.
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Journalist Philip Dryden is shocked to be informed by police that his father has been killed in a car accident – he drowned during the fenland floods of 1977, 35 years before. At the same time, two unrelated cases are demanding Dryden’s professional a body riddled with bullets found hanging in the middle of a lettuce field, and a couple protesting that the local council has buried their baby daughter in a pauper’s grave without permission. As Dryden pieces the clues together, he realizes that the three cases may be related after all . . .
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The Funeral Owl
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When a reader contacts local newspaper The Crow to report a rare sighting of the Boreal, or 'Funeral' Owl, journalist Philip Dryden has a sense of foreboding. For the Funeral Owl is said to be an omen of death. In the violent and terrible week that follows, the sighting of the owl proves prophetic in more ways than one.
