Follow My Leader

FOLLOW MY LEADERHIM?ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN REIGATE IN 1951?SURELY NOT . . .Rowena Furse and Erika von Tirpitz are unlikelyfriends. Rowena loves gardening and opera -Erika loves gin and men. Despite their differinglifestyles, they have something in common -Mr Morell, an elderly German refugee theyhave taken under their wing.One afternoon, led astray by Erika, the usuallyteetotal Mr Morell drinks some gin and, whilstunder the influence, makes an astonishing confession.The revelation sparks a chain of bizarre events -mistaken identity, mayhem at Reigate carnival, andeven murder. The trail stretches from leafy Surrey tothe Canary Islands and back.Is Morell''s claim genuine, or is he, in Erika''s words, just''plain bonkers''?Ben Grimshaw, cub reporter on the Surrey Mirror, triesto fathom it all out. But it takes his Fleet Streetjournalist brother, Storm, to unravel the truth.Ultimately, all roads lead to the old fort on top ofReigate Hill.