The Valley of the Shadow: A Cornish Mystery: 3 (Cornish Mysteries 3)

A cryptic message spurs Eleanor Megan and Nick Gresham on a frantic search for a refugees missing family in The Valley of the Shadow a Cornish Mystery from Carola Dunn.. While out on a walk Eleanor Trewynn her niece Megan and her neighbor Nick spot a young half-drowned Indian man floating in the water. Delirious and concussed he utters a cryptic message about his family being trapped in a cave and his mother dying. The young man unconscious and unable to help is whisked away to a hospital while a desperate effort is mounted find the missing family in time. . The local police inspector presumes that they are refugees from East Africa abandoned by the smugglers who brought them into England so while the Cornwall countryside is being scoured for the family Eleanor herself descends into a dangerous den of smugglers in a desperate search to find the man responsible while there is still time.