Police and Crime Commissioner Lionel Hall-Hartington is shot dead at his farm, alongside one of his employees. His wife is found suspended upside down in an ancient well in the cellar.
DI Jan Talantire is at a loss. There’s no clear motive – the farm was ransacked but nothing has been taken. There are bloody footprints, but no obvious perpetrator. And the farm’s CCTV has been disabled. The only clue they have is a bizarre Victorian-style doll from the wife’s collection which was hung on the door to the cellar.
The trail leads Talantire across the country – and even further afield. Can she look past her first assumptions and unravel this complicated case?
A dark, page-turning crime thriller from the million-copy bestseller. Perfect for fans of Kate Ellis, Sally Rigby and Elly Griffiths.
Nick Louth is a million-copy bestselling thriller author, and an award-winning journalist. After graduating from the London School of Economics, Nick was a foreign correspondent for Reuters, working in New York, Amsterdam, London and Hong Kong. He has written for the Financial Times, Investors Chronicle, Money Observer and MSN. His debut thriller, Bite, was a Kindle No. 1 bestseller and has been translated into six languages. The DCI Craig Gillard series and DI Jan Talantire series are published by Canelo, and in audio by WF Howes. He is married and lives in Lincolnshire.