1989It's 1989 and Allie Burns is back. Older and maybe wiser, she's running the northern news operation of the Sunday Globe, chafing at losing her role in investigative journalism and at the descent into the gutter of the UK tabloid media. But there's plenty to keep her occupied. The year begins with the memorial service to the victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, but Allie has barely filed her copy when she stumbles over a story about HIV AIDS

in circumstances of extraordinary historical drama

She begins to see that all around her others are similarly vanishing

'Bodies of Light' is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous 19th century upbringing set in the atmospheric world of pre-Raphaelitism and the early suffrage movement

each hungers for what the others have

The fourth title in the John Puller series to follow Zero Day

affordable and simple enough you can pop to a supermarket or local wine shop

packed with tragedy

and to the battlefields of France - to the discovery of a very unusual inheritance

and does not like washing up

France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific

and how our right to a fair trial is now at risk

is struggling with her demons