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Hollow
Who put Bella in the wych-elm?
by Barry N Rainsford
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Britain 1943. In woods outside Birmingham, the remains of a murdered female are discovered inside the hollow of a tree. Despite the bizarre tomb and the distinctive features of the skeleton, no-one comes forward to identify her.
Assumed to be gypsy or a vagrant, it becomes an investigation no-one is interested in pursuing. DC Alec Porter, a wounded Spanish Civil War veteran, is the inexperienced detective tasked with completing the paperwork. It is an assignment he takes more seriously than his superiors anticipate. A task drawing him to the heart of a terrifying conspiracy, one that threatens not only those he loves and all that he believes in, but one placing the fate of the country and the very outcome of the war itself in his hands.
Based on archived police files, the larger than life  characters and events on which this novel is based are at times even more unlikely than the fiction the novel weaves in its telling.
From the writer of the acclaimed political-crime thriller All the Dead Men Lie.
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Born in Birmingham, a ‘child of the sixties’, part of that generation of working class kids first encouraged to see continuing in education as a real option.
Busked my way through university, followed by a succession of bands before dreams of ‘making it’ were bludgeoned to death by Punk.
Teaching for forty years in deprived areas of a major city, the experience at times providing a close-up of lives blighted by crime and social ills. More importantly, it more often offered insight into the lives of so many others who daily overcome circumstances that would defeat and overwhelm most of us.
Now living in rural North Yorkshire and writing full time – having taught everyone from convicted murderers and psychopaths through to premier league footballers and Hollywood stars – my interests focus on untold stories and unheard voices.
