P. F. Ford

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When a body is found in the middle of a patch of long grass Slater & Norman are left wondering how did it get there without leaving any tracks? It couldn’t just drop from the sky, could it?

Then, as the detectives begin to examine the scene a dog arrives carrying a stick. Or maybe it isn’t a stick. In fact, now he can see it properly, Slater recognises it as a bone, and he’s pretty sure it’s a human femur. Does this mean there’s another body close by?

When a further search reveals human bones, it seems obvious the two deaths are unrelated. Finding more than one body near a quiet English woodland would seem to be quite a coincidence, but with years between their deaths that’s surely all it can be. Or is it?