When little Yazmin Fletcher’s bones are discovered in Wiltshire woodland twenty years after her disappearance, DI Jeff Lincoln promises Sonia, her mother, that he’ll find out what happened to her. His efforts are hampered by his new boss, though, who’d rather he investigated an incident at the country club.

But then local aristocrat Hugh Buckthorn dies, apparently in a bizarre sex game, although Lincoln suspects murder — and he’s soon proved right. Once a headline-grabbing playboy, Buckthorn had become a respected art historian, returning to the family seat of Greywood Hall with plans to restore its fortunes. But who wanted him dead?

Searching for Buckthorn’s killer, Lincoln and his team at Barley Lane uncover a trail of fraud and deception going back decades. And then Sonia decides to take the law into her own hands… This is the fourth book in the series featuring DI Jeff Lincoln.

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Nikki Copleston is the author of three previous novels featuring Wiltshire detective Jeff Lincoln: The Price of Silence, A Saintly Grave Disturbed, and The Shame of Innocence. Her short stories have won awards, including the Wells Literary Festival Short Story competition, and she is an active member of Frome Writers’ Collective. Born in Somerset and brought up in the Midlands and Wiltshire, she worked in London throughout her career in local government before moving back to Somerset in 2012. She writes occasional articles on Salisbury for The Fisherton Informer, and is a member of Stellar Scribes, a trio of novelists running creative writing workshops in Somerset.

A keen photographer, Nikki takes her inspiration from the landscape of the West Country, although her novels reveal the darker side of life in rural towns and the countryside. She is currently living in Wells with her husband and Harvey the cat.

What readers say:

"What an amazing story. This is the first book I’ve read by this talented author and will be reading more. DI Lincoln is so well written he becomes real. There is such a strong plot with so many dodgy people …who to believe?? It’s gripping and very hard to put down. Loved it.”

"The complex plot – with an additional mystery elsewhere – heads up several blind alleys and has the reader occasionally yelling ‘No! Not that!’ before it all becomes beautifully resolved. A very enjoyable read.”