One Thousand Moons

In 2002, Alba White, a 30-year-old woman, lives alone in a quiet village on the Surrey/Sussex border. While Hillstone Hall, an elderly Lord's mansion, is in financial trouble, a charity cricket match is murdered, and Alba, who found the dying man, is not convinced the police have arrested the right person. The novel takes us from 1940s war-torn France to the airfields of Bomber Command, to the interior of a prison, and to a village pub in 2002, in a murder-mystery that will appeal to Agatha Christie fans and those who enjoy a more retro-feel to their crime stories.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 376 pages
Publication date: 28 July 2021
Publisher: Troubador Publishing

The year is 2002, and the peaceful corner of the world is South East England. Thirty-year-old Alba White is drifting through life, between jobs and living alone in a quiet village on the Surrey/Sussex border. At the other end of the village, Hillstone Hall is in a precarious position. The elderly Lord, Edward Chapman, is in a financial hole and is literally selling the family silver to keep the place afloat.

Then, during a charity cricket match, one of his own garden volunteers is murdered, and things take a further turn for the worse until an arrest is made. Alba, who found the dying man and whose blood stained her beautiful white dress, is not convinced the police have arrested the right person. Suddenly, she has direction, but will she discover the truth in time?

Set around one man's life, we are taken from 1940s war-torn France, to the airfields of Bomber Command, to the grim interior of a prison, and to the homeliness of a village pub in 2002, in a murder-mystery that will appeal to Agatha Christie fans and those who enjoy a more retro-feel to their crime stories.

Weight: 492g
Dimension: 138 x 217 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800463134