Not One of Us - Inspector Finch, Bk 1 Author:June Thomson John Smith is a “man of mystery,” a retiring, educated Englishman who lives alone in a cottage on the edge of a village where the residents are suspicious of recluses such as Smith, who is happy to live alone with his dog, — Then the body of a fifteen year old girl from a neighboring village is found in a wood not far from Smith&rsquo... more »;s cottage. She has been strangled, and the autopsy shows that she is six months pregnant.
Inspector Finch suspects Smith, and yet feels that he and Smith have something in common. Gradually Smith’s background is revealed, as the villagers grow more and more hostile.« less