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2000s: In the cold and remote Peak District, a body of an unidentified man may hold clues to the past…
Blood on the Tongue (Cooper and Fry 3)
What you need to know before your trail
Peak District detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry are back on the case dealing with a series of bizarre crimes. A man’s body has been found on the frosty roadside, a woman has been found curled up in the snow on Iron tongue Hill…
Added to this is the longstanding mystery of a Royal Air Force bomber who crashed into Irontongue back in 1945, killing everyone on board except for the pilot. the pilot who was reported to have walked away from the wreckage… a man who was never seen again……
Now the Canadian daughter of the pilot is back to try and clear her ancestor’s name. But the police have got a few more recent cases to worry about. They couldn’t be linked could they?
Travel Guide
The Derbyshire Moors
The perfect setting for intrigue and murder. History and local folklore enhance the mystery and beauty of this landscape
The mysterious and grisly named Iron Tongue hill may be fictional but when you realise why it’s significant then maybe it’s just as well. For this is the setting in local folklore of a WW2 airplane crash and a missing pilot who managed to escape and who has not been seen since. This crash site is now the scene for another mystery and soon the past and present are to combine in spectacular fashion.
The area where both the modern day and the historical mix is unusually chilly and eerie for it’s in the middle of winter when snow blankets and smoothes everything in its path. The frost and freezing weather is hindering both the investigation and the police force themselves as they are falling ill with cold and other ailments. The police have enough to do without a Canadian girl wanting answers.
Cooper and Fry both get drawn into the mysteries that transcend the past and present. Diane Fry is now Ben’s boss and the dynamics between them are changing as the investigations get ever more complex. Their investigations in a remote and rural community are not easy – the atmosphere like the setting is dark and suspicious, eerily suffocated by the snow as well as the past.
The Peak District is said to be have been a common crash site for planes during the war and that there are many wreckages even now. The mountains may not be deadly high but many planes from Britain and AMerica and German are said to have ended their flight on the Peak District moors.
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