Published in 1994
From the Gollancz dust jacket:
Cochran Wilder disappeared fifteen years ago while on a coastal walking holiday in Cornwall. Recently released from a psychiatric hospital after conviction on charges of indecent assault, he had been a serious embarrassment to his father, a prominent MP. Now his body has been found, buried in the dunes, and it is clear he was murdered.
Wycliffe suspects the involvement of six people, now well-established figures in the community, who at the time had been spending an illicit weekend at a chalet near where Wilder was found. All are disturbed by Wycliffe's interest and by a series of threatening anonymous communications. But then a second murder is committed, and the investigation takes on a new urgency . . .
Wycliffe, one of the best established detectives in crime fiction, is on excellent form in Wycliffe and the Dunes Mystery, an intelligent, atmospheric mystery that will delight all WJ. Burley's many fans.
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