“The Dale Of Despair” by Geoff Quaife shows a grim picture of the English army’s disintegration
Geoff Quaife continues to surprise readers with his gripping series of adventure stories featuring Luke Tremayne.
In The Dale Of Despair: A North Yorkshire Mystery, Luke adjusts to life changing events. After Cromwell’s death, the army which kept England united begins to disband.
Luke resigns from government service, marries a vivacious widow, takes up a vast estate in Yorkshire, and is appointed a local magistrate. He is immediately confronted with the disappearance of his steward and becomes obsessed with two cold cases- a child murder and arson.
Other murders follow and the activities of a likeable criminal, a pagan cult, a powerful witch and the possibility of a royalist uprising complicate his magisterial investigations.
