'Cinderella is in the bluebell woods at Poacher's Dell' The anonymous note means nothing to ancestor detective Natasha Blake. Then one of her clients, an enigmatic old man who had commissioned a family tree of his granddaughter's boyfriend, is shot dead at his isolated farm in the Cotswolds, just as shocking facts about the past are brought to light. Is there a link? Despite Natasha's reluctance to delve deeper, she knows that family histories hide many secrets, and that sometimes they can kill. Seemingly unconnected yet haunting stories begin to emerge from ancient paper trails, like slowly developing photographs: two young soldiers - one German, one British - playing football in no man's land on Christmas Day 1914; a young couple's future ruined by an old man's obsession; Second World War land girls, inseparable friends until a fatal mistake tore them apart; and the eerie echo of a child in an English country house. These individual lives are the clues in Natasha's investigation, ghostly fingerprints that must solve a cold-blooded murder hidden for generations in the bluebell woods at Poacher's Dell.
- ISBN10 0752880772
- ISBN13 9780752880778
- Publish Date 23 August 2006 (first published 21 October 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 March 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English