The Lone Traveller Author:Susan Kelly, Gordon Griffin The summer solstice is drawing near and two groups are camped near Hungerford: the New Age travelers with their incense-scented camper vans and the Romanies, preparing for their summer fair. Tensions between the townspeople and the travelers are already running high, and when six-year-old Jordan Abbot goes missing from her home in Hungerford th... more »e angry residents blame a simple-minded Romany lad. Taking the law into their own hands, an angry mob descends upon the gypsy encampment. Superintendent Gregory Summers of the Hungerford police force tries to appease the locals, but to no avail; their clamor for vengeance knows no bounds. IT is a mysterious stranger, a lone traveler in an old-fashioned gypsy wagon, who saves the boy from the mobs rough justice. As Summers discovers more about the life and death of Jordan Abbot, his suspicions are wide-ranging. The girls mother is hiding something but what? And what is the long travelers connection with the gypsies? In the face of media hostility and local scorn, Summers is himself an outcast, battling against private demons and the public hunger for revenge.« less