Faith Hope and Trickery

<p>Rose Welford the wife of a bootmaker is smothered in her bed in the summer of 1828. Her husband quickly confesses to the crime claiming that a message from beyond the grave told him to do it. At ever more popular gatherings in fields factories and fine houses a charismatic preacher with a history of religious offences seems to be at the heart of it all – but who and what can be believed when fortunes are at stake?<br /><br />In this fifth novel in the series Constable Sam Plank is drawn into matters beyond his understanding when his wife Martha hears a message of her own and his junior constable Wilson makes a momentous choice.</p>