Two Storm Wood

<p><b>THE GUNS ARE SILENT. THE DEAD ARE NOT</b><br><br> <b>'The world has been waiting for a worthy successor to Sebastian Faulks' <i>Birdsong</i> - now Philip Gray has delivered it' David Young, author of <i>Stasi Child</i></b><b><i>.</i></b><br><br> 1919. On the battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Special battalions now face the task of gathering up the dead for mass burial.<br><br> Amy Vanneck's fiancé is one soldier lost amongst many. She heads to France, determined to discover what became of the man she loved.<br><br> Meanwhile, Captain Mackenzie cannot bring himself to go home until his fallen comrades are laid to rest. His task is upended when a gruesome discovery is made beneath the ruins of a German strongpoint.<br><br> It soon becomes clear that what Mackenzie has uncovered is a war crime of inhuman savagery. As the dark truth leaches out, both he and Amy are drawn into the hunt for a psychopath, one for whom the atrocity at Two Storm Wood is not an end, but a beginning.</p><p><br><b>*Longlisted for the 2023 CWA Historical Dagger Award*</b><br><br> <b>'An atmospheric portrayal of the pity of the war' <i>The Times</i>, Books of the Year</b></p> <p><b>THE GUNS ARE SILENT. THE DEAD ARE NOT</b><br><br> <b>'The world has been waiting for a worthy successor to Sebastian Faulks' <i>Birdsong</i> - now Philip Gray has delivered it' David Young, author of <i>Stasi Child</i></b><b><i>.</i></b><br><br> 1919. On the battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Special battalions now face the task of gathering up the dead for mass burial.<br><br> Amy Vanneck's fiancé is one soldier lost amongst many. She heads to France, determined to discover what became of the man she loved.<br><br> Meanwhile, Captain Mackenzie cannot bring himself to go home until his fallen comrades are laid to rest. His task is upended when a gruesome discovery is made beneath the ruins of a German strongpoint.<br><br> It soon becomes clear that what Mackenzie has uncovered is a war crime of inhuman savagery. As the dark truth leaches out, both he and Amy are drawn into the hunt for a psychopath, one for whom the atrocity at Two Storm Wood is not an end, but a beginning.</p><p><br><b>*Longlisted for the 2023 CWA Historical Dagger Award*</b><br><br> <b>'An atmospheric portrayal of the pity of the war' <i>The Times</i>, Books of the Year</b></p>