Against the grain J. A. with Norway's old Cold War

with Norway's old Cold War adversary reborn

parakeets and serpents - complete with a customary shoal of red herrings

the fragile mother

identified as the body found in a burnt-out house - but who reappears from an impulsive visit overseas

Martha doggedly pursues the truth

Against the grain J. A. with Norway's old Cold WarWhen his former deputy, Julie, invites Detective Peter Diamond and his partner Paloma to spend a week at her home in the depths of rural Somerset, Diamond is horrified. What could be worse than seven days in the back end of nowhere with nothing to do? But it turns out that Julie has an ulterior motive. A local woman is doing time for manslaughter after a wild party ended in a tragic accident: a man suffocated in a silo of grain. Nobody in the village