ERROR OF JUDGEMENT by John Dean

Years after a fatal plane crash, the investigation is reopened when a missing body is discovered.

It was a tragedy that shocked the nearby Pennine communities to the core. Several deaths were recorded, but one body was never found. That changes when a mountain rescue team, on a mission to help an injured hill walker, stumbles upon a corpse still strapped into an airplane seat.

But something is not quite right. Is the body they found really the missing passenger? DCI Jack Harris feels obliged to launch a new inquiry into the crash. Few people want old wounds reopened, least of all the widow of the pilot and the original investigating officer.

Foul play had been ruled out in the initial findings. Now Harris is not so sure. But a flurry of activity – financial and criminal – kicks off once the news became national. Someone is hiding something, and they are clearly prepared to kill to cover their tracks.

Can Harris crack the mystery and return to his blissful walks in the hills in peace? Or will his meddling in closed cases annoy the powers that be so much that he finally gets the boot?

ERROR OF JUDGEMENT is a standalone in a series of six books featuring the veteran nature-loving detective, DCI Jack Harris. The full list, in order of publication, is:

1.DEAD HILL
2.THE VIXEN’S SCREAM
3.TO DIE ALONE
4.TO HONOUR THE DEAD
5.THOU SHALT KILL
6.ERROR OF JUDGEMENT

These books are available on Kindle Unlimited and in paperback.

If you enjoy conventional murder mysteries that keep you guessing, you’ll love these books.