Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm (British Library Crime Classics)

‘He could feel it in the blackness, a difference in atmosphere,a sense of evil, of things hidden.’

Amy Snowden, in middle age, has long since settled into a lonely life in the Yorkshire town of Gunnarshaw, until―to her neighbours’ surprise―she suddenly marries a much younger man. Months later, Amy is found dead―apparently by her own hand―and her husband, Wright, has disappeared.

Sergeant Caleb Cluff―silent, watchful, a man at home in the bleak moorland landscape of Gunnarshaw―must find the truth about the couple’s unlikely marriage, and solve the riddle of Amy’s death.