The Dale of Despair

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Luke Tremayne Cromwell's most trusted agent adjusts to life changing events. Cromwell is dead and the army which kept England united is disintegrating. Luke resigns from government service marries a vivacious widow takes up a vast estate in Yorkshire and is appointed a local magistrate. He is immediately confronted with the disappearance of his steward and becomes obsessed with two cold cases- a child murder and arson. Other murders follow and the activities of a likeable criminal a pagan cult a powerful witch and the possibility of a royalist uprising complicate his magisterial investigations. </span></p>