I really enjoyed this book, the story was fast paced with short enough chapters to make me want to keep turning the pages. James Nesbitt says: “It’s great to be back making a drama in and about Northern Ireland, which now has a film and television industry as good as any in the world. Online sources indicate they were deployed for operations in the Mediterranean and the coast of Northern Europe (the British Isles, Scandinavia and the Baltic) during the early to mid 1950s. What makes the book rather special, and very different to other brochures of the era, was that Graham Bunn obviously fancied himself as a bit of a poet. He needed a new start and he'd been offered the job at Wroxham and a family friend had suggested that he could live on his boat.

There were no volume controls on these machines, so it’s little wonder that early 20th century guide books urged visitors to keep loud music down at night! The image above shows what is thought to have been the Acle sub-base at Eastick’s Yacht Station near to the bridge. As restrictions on leisure boating eased in 1943, holiday boat hire resumed at the yard, but it seems that Herbert had his eye on a rather ambitious venture. As well as this, we recognised that our Chefs had spent their first year ever with their families over weekends and key milestones when restaurants are usually thriving. America’ was listed alongside her sister ship ‘IO’ and, at 43ft in length, they were the largest yachts available for hire.Whilst sitting aboard a yacht at Fort-de-France in Martinique, he spotted what appeared to be a Broads yacht sailing in to the harbour. Gray Malkin was one of several ex admiralty craft which were repurposed for use on the Norfolk Broads after the Second World War, the most famous of which was probably the Fairmile B “Golden Galleon” which ran passenger trips from Great Yarmouth between the early 1950s and the 1990s and became a familiar sight crossing Breydon Water. As a result of many years’ experience as a producer of master-craft suitable for continuous and strenuous service, GRAHAM BUNN now presents the “WIND” Boats. Archie is pictured here on the right, holding the dog, whilst Donald is seen with his arms around the shoulders of another two members of the group. Magnify that across the rest of Norfolk and Suffolk and, indeed, the whole of the UK and you can appreciate just what an incredible feat of organisation and engineering this was.

These were presumably produced for the press for propaganda purposes but are an extremely interesting document of Broadland during wartime.

The crimes in the book are well plotted and the investigation flows along nicely, with twists and turns aplenty, along with the usual secrets, lies and duplicitous behaviour. This was originally believed to have been one of the boatsheds at Eastick’s yard at the end of Acle Dyke, but it doesn’t tally with other photographs of the sheds there at that time.

Do not misunderstand me, I don't like when the protagonist is diminished, but neither when he/she is put in the light at the expense of someone else. The lifeboat (above) was a different matter as it didn’t look like any location in Norfolk or Suffolk that I knew.But when an alibi is produced from an unexpected source, and another body appears at the base of a slipway, Tanner finds himself turning to local girl, Detective Constable Jenny Evans for help. The police interviews under caution are also cringe worthy and the response of the suspects dim and dimmer. Both regular and territorial forces were involved in the defence of the region, along with the Home Guard, the latter playing an increasingly more important role in those home defences as the war progressed.

These are fast paced murder mysteries in familiar settings with a slice of humour and a touch of romance that will have you guessing until the very end. It was a little cramped and the facilities were limited, to say the least, but it would do until he could find a flat to rent.Fourteen days of unfettered freedom on a floating home, in surroundings entirely different and better compared with other holidays.