This is the second book in a series of five books which will chronicle the activities of the Wall sisters, who following the ‘murder’ of their father Peter Wall, take over and run his businesses. The action in the five books takes place in the first decade of the 21st century.
The prologue looks back twenty five years to the days when Roger Whiteside and Dafydd Jones were friends in Wrexham. They had unprotected sex with a girl at the local disco, who became pregnant as a result. On the birth of the child she died. The son , Rhys Williams, was brought up by his retired grandparents.
England’s Wall starts three days before the end of Time’s Up, the first book in the series. The body of Roger Whiteside the business partner of Peter Wall is discovered floating in the River Dee by a dog walker. Following extensive research it is discovered that he was murdered, and not committed suicide as was at first suspected.
With Roger Whiteside now dead as well as Peter Wall the two founders of Walls Civil Engineers there are significant funds to be released by the insurers. Roger Whiteside dies intestate, so unless there is a blood relative the money will go to the crown. Rhys Williams, the illegitimate son of Roger Whiteside, and proven by DNA which may be false, is by coincidence working as an assistant in the Police Forensic Science department of Chester Police.
There is some residential development land that Peter Wall purchased, together with two houses that if demolished would give access to the land. The second access to the land was owned by Dafydd Jones who believed that his ownership of the ‘ransom strip’ would ensure that he would be able to buy the land. He was furious that Peter Wall had beaten him to it. Dafydd had been using Walls Civil Engineers to do ground works on an industrial estate for him, and he owed Walls a great deal of money. He vowed never to use Walls again as Peter had beaten him to buy land dafydd felt was by right his.
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