An Assumption of Death

Archaeologist, Arnold Landon, has a difficult decision to make. Should he join his girlfriend in America and take up the offer of a job, or should he stay in his beloved Northumberland and battle it out with the attractive but insufferable acting-head of his department? There is plenty to distract him, and when a young heiress goes missing and the chairman of the archaeological society falls to his death, he is drawn into a web of hallucination, deceit and danger. Meanwhile, the discovery of a headless corpse has sparked off a police investigation into drug-smuggling...