John Dean – Crime Writer

It should be Detective Chief Inspector John Blizzard’s big day – the relaunch of an old railway station as part of efforts by the heritage group of which he is a member to restore a steam railway to the northern city of Hafton.

Instead, he finds himself investigating the death of a notorious ex-boxer, whose battered body is discovered in one of the railway’s signal boxes.

The death of Billy Guthrie on his return to the city is mourned by very few people because his brutal ways meant that he had enemies everywhere, especially among the railway preservation group.

As Blizzard investigates the murder, he begins to question long-standing friendships and discovers compromised loyalties – and that’s even before another victim’s body is found.

You can buy John Dean’s crime novel The Railway Man (The Book Folks, a Joffe Books imprint) by keying the title into the search field at www.amazon.co.uk