The Signalman's Daughter

The Signalman's Daughter
Inspector Vignoles Mystery No11
ISBN978-1-9164010-4-4
The Vignoles Press
270pp
 
A secret should never be told.  Or should it?
Because keeping silent can have deadly consequences...
 
Not least for Laura Green, the signalman’s daughter, who has proudly followed in her beloved father’s footsteps. David Green, the archetypal quiet family man, is visited unexpectedly by a long-lost school friend, who is then found dead underneath an experimental gas-turbine locomotive in the back of Woodford Halse engine shed. It is not long before Green is accused of murder.
It seems barely credible. This unassuming, dependable signalman would never do such a thing... but as DCI Vignoles presses home his investigation, Green seems to know more than he is admitting about an encounter with Rosie, the village beauty one hot May day before the war, which ultimately ends in tragedy. 
 
DCI Vignoles muses that this case’s complexities have a metaphor in the intricacy of wires, levers, pulleys and rods, which when activated by the signalman’s daughter all conspire with one result…
       …a signal warning red for danger!
 
‘It hits all the right spots and once again I could not put it down. I thought the way you concentrated on other characters worked very well and gave a completely different slant to the story so three cheers! "The Signalman’s  Daughter" proudly displayed on my bookshelves!’
Mary