Blacklands Martin Stephen Where there is murder

Where there is murder

After her mother is killed in the Blitz and her father in the North Sea

dressed as an angel

a mother of three

the very earth shake underfoot

Blacklands Martin Stephen Where there is murderTwelve year old Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to find a body. Every day after school, while his classmates swap football stickers, Steven goes digging to lay to rest the ghost of the uncle he never knew, who disappeared aged eleven and is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery. Only Steven's Nan is not convinced her son is dead. She still waits for him to come home, standing bitter guard at the front