Booty

It's 1946... and a failed suicide followed by a violent murder shocks a sleepy Suffolk town into a tangled treasure hunt that zigzags from the fall of Singapore to murky antiquities dealers in post-war London.

It's 1946... and a failed suicide followed by a violent murder shocks a sleepy Suffolk town into a tangled treasure hunt that zigzags from the fall of Singapore to murky antiquities dealers in post-war London.

Valerie Kershaw was born in Lancashire and now lives in Suffolk with her husband. They have three grown up children. She has been a newspaper and radio journalist. She’s published nine novels. Her third The Bank Manger’s Wife was adapted for television, her fourth Rockabye won the £5,000 Lichfield Prize.