![]() ![]() When I heard about this book, which uses genealogy to solve a modern day crime, I knew straightaway that I had to read it - author Dan Waddell penned the book that accompanied the TV series. Having watched and enjoyed the TV series Who Do You Think You Are?, which delves into famous people's family histories, I have become interested in tracing my own family history. ![]() But what is the present day murderer trying to tell them? Do they have enough information at their fingertips to stop him before more people end up dead? Back in the present day, more murders are happening along the same lines. Sure enough the number leads them back to 1879 and a series of murders. ![]() Then his sidekick, DS Heather Jenkins recognises the series as potentially the index number for a birth or death certificate and calls in a genealogist, Nigel Barnes to help them follow it up. When DCI Grant Foster finds a series of numbers and letters carved onto a victim's skin, he is perplexed to say the least. But can he prove how, and more importantly, why? This book cleverly combines murder and genealogy to make a fascinating read. Summary: A murder in a churchyard leads DCI Grant Foster to a chilling conclusion: past murders are coming back to haunt the present. ![]()
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