A Quiet Contagion

Six decades. Seven people. One unspeakable secret.1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where sixteen-year-old Wilf is working for the summer. A catastrophe that needs to be covered up at all costs.2017. Phiney is shocked by the death of her grandfather, Wilf, who has jumped from a railway bridge at a Coventry station. Journalist Mat Torrington is the only witness.Left with a swarm of unanswered questions, Phiney, Mat and Wilf's wife, Dora, begin their own enquiries into Wilf's death. It is soon clear that these two events, sixty years apart, are connected - and that Wilf is not the only casualty.But what is the link? And can they find out before any more lives are lost?

Product details

• Authors: Jane Jesmond
• Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.11.2023
• EAN: 9780857308498
• ISBN: 978-0-85730-849-8
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Historical mysteries, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: women sleuths