Inspector Vignoles Mystery
2 primary works
Book 11
The Signalman’s Daughter
Whining its way into steam’s Indian summer comes The Difference Engine, a gas turbine locomotive flashily showing the future of rail transport in 1956. But it’s the past this gleaming white machine stirs up; tearing lives asunder as it thunders through sleepy middle England, its heat haze distorting what appeared to be reality.
Not least for Laura Green, the signalman’s daughter, who has proudly followed in her beloved father’s footsteps. And just as The Difference Engine proves not to be the paragon of progress it promises, so David Green, the archetypal quiet family man, is revealed to have hidden faults of his own.
Rewind to one glorious May day in pre-war England. Two inebriated teenagers engineer an encounter with Rosie, the village beauty, which ultimately ends in tragedy. All that remains is one small tangible item loaded with such dark emotion it causes decades of resentment.
DCI Vignoles muses that this case’s complexities have a metaphor in the intricacy of wires, levers, pulleys and rods, which when activated by the signalman’s daughter all conspire with one result…
…a signal warning red for danger!
Whining its way into steam’s Indian summer comes The Difference Engine, a gas turbine locomotive flashily showing the future of rail transport in 1956. But it’s the past this gleaming white machine stirs up; tearing lives asunder as it thunders through sleepy middle England, its heat haze distorting what appeared to be reality.
Not least for Laura Green, the signalman’s daughter, who has proudly followed in her beloved father’s footsteps. And just as The Difference Engine proves not to be the paragon of progress it promises, so David Green, the archetypal quiet family man, is revealed to have hidden faults of his own.
Rewind to one glorious May day in pre-war England. Two inebriated teenagers engineer an encounter with Rosie, the village beauty, which ultimately ends in tragedy. All that remains is one small tangible item loaded with such dark emotion it causes decades of resentment.
DCI Vignoles muses that this case’s complexities have a metaphor in the intricacy of wires, levers, pulleys and rods, which when activated by the signalman’s daughter all conspire with one result…
…a signal warning red for danger!
Book 12
This Transient Life
A laboratory virus couldn't bring a nation to its knees . . . or could it?
All aboard 'the Plague Express' as it fatally rock 'n' rolls through a man-made pandemic felling a population already hit by Asian flu.
In his most surreal case, DCI Charles Vignoles and his team are charged with tracking down an invisible killer which rides the railway network more easily than any season ticket holder.
But who are the true villains behind this escalating crisis? The arrogant Military nabobs who conceived this new coronavirus strain as a weapon? The secretive scientists who concocted it? Or a pair of infected soldiers from the intriguing Longmoor Military Railway?
With the seemingly pointless murder of an innocent young waitress, Vignoles soon realises he is also up against a covert powerful force determined to cover its tracks...
...in a matter of transient life and death.
A laboratory virus couldn't bring a nation to its knees . . . or could it?
All aboard 'the Plague Express' as it fatally rock 'n' rolls through a man-made pandemic felling a population already hit by Asian flu.
In his most surreal case, DCI Charles Vignoles and his team are charged with tracking down an invisible killer which rides the railway network more easily than any season ticket holder.
But who are the true villains behind this escalating crisis? The arrogant Military nabobs who conceived this new coronavirus strain as a weapon? The secretive scientists who concocted it? Or a pair of infected soldiers from the intriguing Longmoor Military Railway?
With the seemingly pointless murder of an innocent young waitress, Vignoles soon realises he is also up against a covert powerful force determined to cover its tracks...
...in a matter of transient life and death.