The Woodhead Diaries

Workmen find two skeletons in an old Victorian shaft. The bodies date from the 1840s, when Irish navvies dug the first tunnel. Young CID Sergeant Susan Priestley follows a trail that takes her to Dublin, where a sensitive diary has been locked away for over a hundred years. Slowly, Susan unravels the murder plots and discovers a Victorian world of establishment intrigue and hypocrisy. "Dave Cherry lives and breathes Barnsley and its history, culture and passion like a seam of coal through rock." - Andy Kershaw, BBC Radio Sheffield. "Dave is a multi- talented songwriter, playwright, archive film historian, and now an author Everything he does has the golden Midas touch." - Barnsley Councillor Phillip Birkinshaw. "Dave Cherry's wonderful skills and humour have enlivened the lives of Barnsley Chronicle readers for years." - John Threlkeld, retired Barnsley Chronicle deputy editor. "This is a book I can't wait to read Barnsley's latest novelist is writing about the Huskar mining disaster." - Mel Dyke, education consultant, lecturer and writer.