Sister Dear, Sister Dead

About the Book

In the 1950s and ’60s, a scheme was evolved to combine the solutions to two problems arising from the effects of World War II and concerning both many European governments and that of Australia. Europe had an embarrassing number of displaced, orphaned, and unwanted illegitimate children; Australia needed population. Fifty years later, a pile of clothes is found under the pier at Hockley, a quiet town on England’s south coast, and a woman’s body is subsequently found on the beach at Fairlight Cove, exactly where a suicide’s body would wash ashore. But all is not quite as it should be.

About the Author

Clive Hopkins joined the Royal Navy at the age of fifteen and served ten years. Upon leaving the RN, he immigrated to Canada and served as an auxiliary police officer. Returning to the UK, he joined the International Publishing Company’s Scientific/Technical Division as staff writer, subsequently becoming an editor and then group editor of three titles. Since then he has published a naval trilogy about the Korean War, well received by the cognoscenti, and the first two novels in the ongoing Detective Inspector “Dibs” Beacon series—An Appropriate Death and Remembrance Day.