catsalive (Australia) (2010/05/14): cover: The gruesome murder of Beryl Tompkins brought Detective Chief Inspector Luke Abbott of the Regional Crime Squad back to Wychford, the sleepy little West Country village where he'd been born and raised. For Abbott it was just another case, to be solved with as little fuss and as quickly as possible. But there were distractions. Jennifer Eames, whom he'd last seen twenty years before had grown into a beautiful woman. And Wychford too had changed. Behind the picture postcard prettiness it was seething with secret loves and hates, perversion, envy, jealousy and greed. And now a second murder. Wyn Frenholm had nothing in common with Beryl Tompkins, except that her throat had also been horribly slashed. Either it was a copycat killing, or somewhere in Wychford a psychopath was loose...
