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A body washes up from the sea. Another body is found in Wyken Woods. How could a children´s home and a stately home be connected? DCI Matthew Wisdom and his team have their work cut out.

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Settling into his new position as DCI Matthew Wisdom with the Bexfordshire police, he begins to get to grips with the growing crime rate and body count. No sooner has he got his feet under the table but the dreaded body count does indeed begin to rise. A body washed up from the sea leads the police a merry dance as they seek to discover how the person was killed. A second body is then found in Whken Woods. From a children´s home to a stately home, follow the police as they try to solve the puzzles that they are presented with.

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Ward, Alan
Alan was born in Leicestershire in England in 1954, and now shares his life with his partner in Blackpool in Lancashire on the north-west coast of England - the setting for the fictious county of Bexfordshire, where the Wisdom´s Way series of books are situated. Alan now writes under his original birth name of Leslie James Marston, and has several books to his credit.

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