The skeleton man : a Philip Dryden novel, book 5 Cover Image

The skeleton man : a Philip Dryden novel, book 5 / Jim Kelly.

ISBN: 9780312377816
ISBN: 0312377819
Physical Description: vii, 343 pages : map ; 22 cm
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008.
Copyright: &copy;2007

Kelly, Jim, 1957- (Author).

Summary:

For seventeen years, the English hamlet of Jude's Ferry has lain abandoned, used only for army training exercises. Before then, the isolated, thousand-year-old community was famous for one thing---having never recorded a single crime. But when local reporter Philip Dryden joins the army on practice maneuvers in the empty village, its spotless reputation is literally blown apart. Artillery fire reveals a hidden cellar beneath the old pub, and inside the cellar hangs a skeleton, a noose around its neck. No one knows---or will say---who the victim was. Two days later, a terrified man is pulled from the reeds of a nearby river, with no idea of who he is or how he got there. The only name he can remember is Jude's Ferry. As Dryden searches for the secret history of the dead town, he is also witnessing a kind of rebirth: Seven years after the accident that nearly killed her, his wife, Laura, is finally emerging from coma and paralysis to begin a semblance of normal life. But will that semblance be enough for her---or for Dryden