Music of the Distant StarsThe new 'Lassair' mystery from the author of the 'Hawkenlye' books Very early one summer morning, Lassair slips out of her Fenland village on a deeply personal mission and discovers the body of a young woman, hidden where it has no place to be. The girl's identity is quickly discovered but, as she wonders who killed her and why, Lassair swiftly becomes mystified and frightened. Why did a sweet natured seamstress have to die? Suspicion soon creeps

and the vanished dream (probably always an illusion

This story is the song of Australia

Pentecost leads his tribe of harvest mice from their polluted home to a new place of safety in the hills

Her mother has stopped work to devote herself full-time to her daughter's care

Even as he plucks up the courage to ask for Rose's hand

he accepts a job on the coast and quickly settles into his new life where he meets reclusive artist Lennie

A suicide mission

Until two years

As Bruno begins to discover a pattern in these killings

knowledge of the war is limited to the rumours that reach the local inn

and which should die - her son

this is a suspense that stays with you long after the last page'Ellery Lloyd'It got me by the throat and wouldn’t let go