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Called out to investigate a murder, Blake Hartley finds himself investigating a drug-smuggling ring. The master-mind behind it is the nephew of the murdered woman, Miss Bradshaw, the last of a mill dynasty. The unravelling of the crime is also the unravelling of the past. The Revd. D. I. Blake Hartley has a personal motive for solving the case - revenge! He knows this and he knows it runs counter to his beliefs as a priest, yet there's little he can do about it. His sergeant, Ibrahim Khan, a Muslim, is also a deeply religious man. Born in West Yorkshire like his inspector, both share a love for the North Country and its people. The action of this fast-moving novel is set in the Yorkshire Pennine Countryside

The Revd Detective Inspector Blake Hartley has a problem on his hands when one of the sidesmen at church rushes back after the morning service to tell him there's a body in the old graveyard. The policeman/priest thinks he's having his leg pulled till the look on the sidesman's face tells him otherwise. The discovery leads Blake Hartley and Sgt Ibrahim Khan into a world of money-laundering, drugs, church robberies and wife abuse all in his home parish. It also leads him eventually to Arizona collaborating with an American detective, and an exciting climax at the Grand Canyon. Set in the wild Pennine country like the rest in this series, The Graveyard Mystery peels back the plaster from more than one present-day politically correct facade.