Bright Young Things

January 5, 1930. On a winter morning, a man dumps a body on Bournemouth beach. The dead woman is Faun Moran, a wildchild in her twenties who was supposedly killed in a car crash the previous autumn. So who was the young woman in the car, and where has Faun Moran been all this time? DCI Henry Johnstone returns to work to solve this baffling mystery.

About the author

Jane A. Adams was born in Leicestershire and still lives there - even though it is too far from the sea. She teaches creative writing and writing skills, mentors other writers for various arts organizations and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Royal Literary Fund Associate Fellow. Her first book, The Greenway, was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Award and for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award. When not writing she can often be found drawing racing dodos and armoured hares and the occasional octopus.
As well as the Henry Johnstone series, Adams is the author of the highly acclaimed Naomi Blake and Rina Martin mystery series.

Summary

January 5, 1930. On a winter morning, a man dumps a body on Bournemouth beach. The dead woman is Faun Moran, a wildchild in her twenties who was supposedly killed in a car crash the previous autumn. So who was the young woman in the car, and where has Faun Moran been all this time? DCI Henry Johnstone returns to work to solve this baffling mystery.

Product details

• Authors: Jane A. Adams, Adams Jane A.
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780727850133
• ISBN: 978-0-7278-5013-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: A Henry Johnstone Mystery; A Henry Johnstone 1930s Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, Historical mysteries, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, Dorset, Historical crime and mysteries, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General, Bournemouth and Poole