The 1998 book is "Over Here"
( ISBN 0 09 478120 6 )

The following is taken from the inside of the dust jacket

It is April 1997, and a party of Americans have come on a nostalgia trip to revisit the old airfield in Toddington where they were stationed as fighter-pilots during the Second World War. But as they explore their old haunts they find a skeleton in one of the abandoned Nissen Huts.

The next day Cheif Superintendent George Gently receives an anonymous note through the post :
ASK THE YANKS ABOUT MILLY
READ. WENT MISSING 1944
AFTER A DANCE AT THE CAMP.
ONE WHO KNOWS.

A joke? Then forensic evidence confirms that the skeleton is of a young woman, aged about twenty, who has been dead for around fifty years.

As Gently discusses the night Milly vanished with the ex-airmen, he discovers that more than one of them was in love with her. Have they unearthed a classic case of jealousy reaching a point where it led to violent crime? Is one of the American heroes a killer ? Painstakingly Gently goes over the events of that long ago party, probing motive and opportunity, until finally a murderer can be brought to justice.

NOTE - The purpose of this page is to encourage people to borrow the novels of Alan Hunter from public libraries or to go out and BUY a book !