Cornish Mystery Series
A cryptic message spurs Eleanor, Megan, and Nick Gresham on a frantic search
for a refugee's missing family, in The Valley of the Shadow, a Cornish Mystery
from Carola Dunn.
While out on a walk, Eleanor Trewynn, her niece Megan, and her neighbor Nick
spot a young, halfdrowned Indian man floating in the water. Delirious and
concussed, he utters a cryptic message about his family being trapped in a cave
and his mother dying. The young man, unconscious and unable to help, is whisked
away to a hospital while a desperate effort is mounted find the missing family in
time.
The local police inspector presumes that they are refugees from East Africa,
abandoned by the smugglers who brought them into England, so while the
Cornwall countryside is being scoured for the family, Eleanor herself descends into
a dangerous den of smugglers in a desperate search to find the man responsible
while there is still time.