The Sleep of the Dead Author:Tom Bradby The brilliant new thriller from the acclaimed author of Shadow Dancer. — The village of East Welham has never recovered from the day that two of its inhabitants were brutally murdered on the common nearly fifteen years before: a young woman, Sarah Ford, and her six-year-old daughter, Alice. Julia Havilland is one for whom the case has a co... more »mpelling resonance. Returning to the village, her military career under investigation, Julia begins to probe the murders and discovers that even from beyond the grave, the past can exert a stranglehold on the present.« less