The Deserter at Sallow Heath
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“He lied about where he found the coins. Three days later he was dead on the heath.”
January 2028. A five-day frost on the Norfolk Brecks. A dying stranger with Yorkshire in his voice puts seven Iron Age silver coins on Bo Catchpole’s trestle table in the back room of the Lamb and Ferret and swears they came out of Sallow Heath. The dirt on them says otherwise.
Three days later he is lying forty yards from the Army’s wire with his coat done up, his cap upside down beside him, and no mark on him the doctor can find. His car is at Brandon station. In January 1979, in the snow, another car was left in that car park, and a boy called Mick Thurlow never came home.
Bo is not a police officer. She records what people find and where they say they found it. But her dead father’s hoard, the one the county put his name to in 1980, came out of the wrong ground too, and the only man left alive who knows what happened that winter night is eighty, has a broken hip, and has waited forty-nine years to be asked.
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How it begins
The man in the waxed jacket came into the back room of the Lamb and Ferret at ten to twelve on the second Saturday in January, with the frost three days old on the yard outside, and Bo knew him at once and could not have said from where.
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