Book Description

Married couple Allegra and Brian are found shot dead in their luxurious converted-barn home on the banks of the River Richington.Detective Inspector Jack Dawes is called to investigate. It seems Brian shot his wife and then turned the shotgun on himself.Allegra was a hot-shot divorce lawyer, known to sleep around. She always described Brian as her ‘starter marriage’. He was a music teacher whose colleagues refuse to believe he could have done such a heinous thing.Then disgraced magistrate Felix ‘Butcher’ Barrington is found hanged from a tree in Kings Copse. And forensic evidence connects him to the double murder of the unfortunate couple.Every time Jack starts thinking he’s cracked this fiendish case, he uncovers a new tangle of secrets and lies. And now fungus hunters have dug out one more secret . . .