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The Bone Beneath the Brambles

Colin Bostock-Smith

Diamond Books

Paperback

283pp

ISBN: 9781915649553

Fiction

Publication date: 19 March 2026

£10.99

When the bones of a young woman are dug up in a farmhouse garden, P.C. Derek Maertin discovers a link between her death and pre-war English fascism. He is, however, distracted not just by the chance of a promotion to CID, which would uproot him and his wife, Mary, from their idyllic village life, but also by an armed robbery.

Meanwhile the huge, but child-like Ivor, home on leave from his psychiatric hospital, becomes convinced that Mary is ‘holy’ and that Derek is the anti-Christ.