The Death of Conscience – Book two in the Great Tew mystery series

A rogue letter threatens the newly won peace in Europe, and a ghost from the Great War returns to Great Tew to haunt the man who sent him there.

August 1916. In the bloody chaos of the battle of the Somme, a soldier dies and his brother deserts. Four years later, in the remote village of Great Tew, a body is found. Every family had good reason to hate the victim, and it falls to Constable Burrows, Innes Knox, the local doctor, and Edward Spense, youngest son of the Dowager Lady Langford, to investigate. But unexpected events leave Burrows to doggedly pursue the murderer alone.

Meanwhile, in the Foreign Office in London, Sir Anthony Kerr is horrified to receive a blackmail demand that could change the course of history, and lead to another war.

A letter must be recovered at all cost and the trail leads to Great Tew. But as Sir Anthony prepares for the exchange at Langford Hall, the ghost extracts his terrible revenge…