Death on the Downs (Fethering Mystery)
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ISBN: 0425179532 / Publisher: Berkley Hardcover, August 2001
While out walking around the town, sensible Carole Seddon comes across a human skeleton and joins forces with Jude, her bohemian neighbor, and soon the two women are faced with two mysteries.
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Exploring the South Downs of the well-to-do town of Weldisham, Carole Seddon is caught in a sudden rainstorm. She finds refuge in an old barn - but relief turns to revulsion when she discovers the bones of a human skeleton packed inside two bags.After Carole informs the police, it isn't long before local gossip spreads. People are saying the remains are those of a missing girl named Tamsin Lutteridge, who was suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome and seeing several practitioners of alternative medicine - including Carole's friend Jude - to heal herself. Eager to learn if Tamsin really is dead, Jude begins her own investigation, which leads her to Sandalls Manor - where Tamsin is very much alive, and keeping close company with a very charismatic New Age healer.Now Jude and Carole have two mysteries to unravel. Why is Tamsin deliberately hiding from her father? And if the skeleton wasn't hers...whose was it?
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