With its eccentric locals, simmering feuds and a book group bristling with dark secrets, he is surrounded by irresistible material for his new novel. But when the man he has chosen as the victim in his fictional plot turns up dead, fiction and reality collide spectacularly.
From drugged hunting dogs to clandestine rites on Gallows Hill, Graham is dragged into a tangle of ancient scandals and modern crime. His life depends on him embracing both sides of himself, the tough Tom Stone and intuitive Tamara Wilde, and uncovering the truth before it is too late...
David Fairer is Professor of English at the University of Leeds. A lover of all kinds of crime fiction, especially comic crime, he is the author of Chocolate House Treason, The Devil’s Cathedral, and Captain Hazard’s Game, murder mysteries set in Queen Anne’s London. He also loves cooking, but unlike many current novelists he does not have a lifestyle or a dog...