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From the author of THE LOVE OF GODS, a crime thriller which features Chief Superintendent George Gently. A group of veteran American fighter pilots discover a body at the base where they were stationed during World War Two. Gently receives a cryptic note suggesting that he question the veterans about the death of a woman over 50 years ago earlier.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

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Alan Hunter

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Alan Hunter was born at Hoveton, Norfolk and went to school across the River Bure in Wroxham. He left school at 14 and worked on his father's farm near Norwich. He enjoyed dinghy sailing on the Norfolk Broads, wrote natural history notes for the local newspaper, and wrote poetry, some of which was published while he was in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

He married, in 1944, Adelaide Cooper, who survives him with their daughter. After the war he managed the antiquarian books department of Charles Cubitt in Norwich. Four years later, in 1950, he established his own bookshop on Maddermarket in the city.

From 1955 until 1998 he published a Gently detective novel nearly every year. He retired to Brundall in Norfolk where he continued his interests in local history, natural history, and sailing

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