Author: Clare Curzon
Genre: Crime, Mystery & Thriller
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Pub. Date: 16th April 2007
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Awoken in the middle of the night by a banging barn door, farm manager Ned Barton braves the storm to investigate. Inside, he finds the mutilated body of a woman displayed like a sacrificial trophy on bales of straw.
Superintendent Mike Yeadings of the
What is the function of the newly padlocked hut in the nearby woods? Do its contents prove an occult element, as village gossip suggest? And when an eccentric grandmother suddenly presents herself as the boy's legal guardian, can her quoted motives be believed?
Suppressing his horror at the massacre, Yeadings is under pressure to lead his team - as ever competing for the higher ground - through the mental labyrinth to find the perpetrator.