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After a period of calm, a new spate of murders hits a post-war Yorkshire seaside town Showing a worrying similarity to a past crime, a local woman is found dead in sand dunes near an otherwise sleepy town. Her murder forces the townsfolk to relive events of some years previous. The difficulty for Detective Inspector Blades is that a man was tried and convicted for the other crimes. Does this mean the killer is still at large and they hung the wrong person? Diligent investigation of the crime scene and its surroundings produces conflicting witness reports. The Great War having only recently ended, there is an edginess in the air. The population begin to suspect that a conscientious objector is the perpetrator. The last thing Blades needs is a wrong conviction, so he is desperate to secure a confession. But when a witness is found dead, the stakes are raised. Who is killing these young women and why? Did they hang an innocent man? Or will the local suspicions about a yellow-belly turn out to be true? THE RIDDLE OF THE DUNES is the third murder mystery by James Andrew. It can be enjoyed as a standalone, or read alongside the other books in the series. The full list of books, in order of publication, is as follows: 1. THE BODY IN THE SANDS 2. DEATH WAITS FOR NO LADY 3. THE RIDDLE OF THE DUNES 4. THE SUITCASE MURDERER

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James is a teacher by profession who has taught in the United Kingdom and abroad. He is now settled in a small town near Inverness in Scotland where he enjoys the beach, walking, reading voluminous amounts of books and writing. He is also a poet with two collections published but has always wanted to get novels 'out there'. He has a passion for the writing of Graham Greene, Agatha Christie, and PD James amongst many others.

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