Remembrance Day

About the Book

Cadet Fredrick Barnes stands to attention as the notes of the bugle remind all present of the reason for their attendance; the string from the draped flag masking the new memorial is wound round his hand to ensure no possibility of slipping. The final note of ‘The Last Post’ drifts into the silence, and young Barnes pulls the string. The explosion that follows kills all those standing in front of the new memorial and injures many behind them. As the senior policeman present, DI Dibs Beacon tries to find out what sort of monster bombs a Remembrance Day service.

About the Author

Clive Hopkins joined the Royal Navy at the age of fifteen and served for ten years. Upon leaving the Royal Navy, he emigrated to Toronto, Canada, where he served as an auxiliary police officer. Returning to the United Kingdom, he joined the International Publishing Company’s industrial division as a staff writer, subsequently becoming editor and then group editor of three titles in the scientific/technical list. Since then he has published a naval trilogy about the Korean War, well received by the cognoscenti, and the first book in the ongoing Detective Inspector Dibs Beacon series of crime novels, An Appropriate Death.