The DI Ambrose Mysteries are set in the late 1950s and early '60s, a period of great change that seems like an era ago.
Skull Days
Newly promoted to Detective Chief Inspector, Ambrose leads a serious crime team, with officers including reader's favourites, DI Winters, WPC Meadows, PC Sutton, and PC Green, a rookie from London, learning country policing.
When a girl goes missing from an expensive boarding school and a teacher drowns in mysterious circumstances, a chain of events develops that stretches Ambrose and his team to its limits.
Skull Days is the fifth novel in the series, after Foul Play,