John Dean – Crime Writer

It was a tragedy that shocked people in the North Pennines, a passenger aircraft that tried to cross the uplands but was flying far too low due due a technical fault, aviation investigators later concluded. The plane clipped one of the summits and ploughed into a hillside, killing all aboard.
Despite an intensive search of the surrounding hills, one of the bodies was never found and remained missing until, years later, a mountain rescue team called out to help an injured hill walker, is astonished when it stumbles upon a body still strapped into its airline seat and hidden from view in the middle of a wood.
Local head of CID, Detective Chief Inspector Jack Harris, heads up the investigation and very soon concludes that something is very wrong. Can the body really have been there all that time? How did the search teams miss it during the exhaustive search that followed the crash, including in the wood? Is the body really the missing passenger or is it a hoax, and, if it is a hoax, who is responsible and why?
The police investigation leads Harris and his team to question the findings of the initial crash inquiry team and conclude that foul play was responsible for the loss of the aircraft. As Harris become ever more convinced that a terrible crime has been committed, he and his team find themselves re-opening old wounds and alarming people who have good reason for the incident to remain in the past. Error of Judgement by John Dean (The Book Folks, a Joffe Books imprint) can be purchased in various formats by keying the crime novel’s title into the search field at www.amazon.co.uk