When a young girl is found strangled in a pillbox military blockhouse on the edge of an isolated village it looks like a tragic but uncomplicated sex crimeespecially as Jed the local boy with whom she was last seen has disappeared. But when Jeds bloodsoaked jacket is found in another pillbox further along the river bank it becomes clear that the case is more complicated. Chief Inspector Dalliance and DS Riley set about untangling a skein of leads and in the process discover that the respectab