The Ballad of the Yarmouth Six

Laura Forster´s doing it again. The third volume follows her with some anticipation to the Channel Islands in the Bay of St. Malo. Here she is busy unveiling a dark secret ultimately harking back to the German occupation during WW II. The focus of her investigations lies on the history of the legendary Yarmouth Six: a jolly band of six young expendables recruited from a notorious juvie. Under the leadership of an inexperienced lieutenant straight from Sandhurst they are to mount a pinprick commando raid on the heavily mined little island of Sark. A suicide mission obviously that soon runs into heavy waters and comes very close to a fubar end. One of the recruits drowns; others sustain gunshot wounds. When finally it´s each man for himself the generalized confusion gives rise to a fair number of dreadful shocking but also rather hilarious episodes laughter being deadlier than bullets. Once the war is over the six survivors who had narrowly failed to become the terror of the Nazis decide henceforth to take better care of Number One by founding a brotherhood of crime which in turn is to become the terror of the British Isles. All of that is a lot of water under the bridge. Or is it? A long and bloody trail appears to be leading from the six graves to a mysterious present-day murder spree. When in the course of his vendetta the killer shoots a certain Solveig by way of collateral he´s made a bad mistake. Young Solveig happened to be the first great love-affair of Laura Forster´s adoptive son Ignace. And God knows the Forster family is not in the habit of taking such things lying down...