Wait, you too will soon rest

Wait, you'll soon be resting too (Original: Cold in the Earth ) is the third novel by the author Ann Granger . It was published in a German translation by Edith Walter in 2004 as a paperback by Bastei Lübbe . The English edition was first published in 1992.

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The novel takes place in the fictional parish of Bamford. Meredith Mitchell, who once lived in Bamford, now lives Toby Smyhe's apartment in London. She is asked to look after Alan Markby's sister's house over Easter. Markby himself has her hands full: a girl dies from heroin, which has been discovered more and more frequently in the area recently, while a naked stranger is discovered while digging a construction pit. The man has only recently died and was buried alive. Meredith investigates on her own, under the pretext of writing a report about a sect that had a prayer house next to the Greyladies farm over a hundred years ago, but which burned out one night. The excavator driver who found the body suddenly disappears and the foreman Jerry Hersey is killed by a broken neck. It turns out that Alwyn Winthrop and his parents are storing drugs on the farm for his brother Jamie. When a French agent finds out about them, Mrs. Winthrop hits him on the head with a poker and the men bury him at the construction site. Alwyn thinks Jerry knows something, so he kills him too. Meredith discovers the heroin and puts herself in danger. When the Winthrops learn that their son does not want to continue the farm, they get out. Jamie is injured while trying to escape and is arrested. Meredith and Alan fall apart in the course of the investigation when Meredith makes it clear to him that they cannot live with some things connected with his job and that they therefore have no future together.

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• Wait, you too will soon rest . Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2000 ISBN 3-404-14375-2 (wrong ISBN)