Death of a Friend

Local police inspector DC Den Cooper is settling into life in the sleepy village he now calls home when two suspicious deaths shake him from his reverie. First, an animal rights activist dies after being headbutted by a horse at a local Devon hunt. There's no sympathy from the villagers who feel Nina Cattermole was meddling where she had no place to be, and they remain suspicious of Nina's eccentric family.

Then another passionate anti-hunting protestor, Charlie Gratton, is found dead in a ditch on the day of Nina's funeral, his head bashed in. Charlie's injuries indicate he was trampled by a horse. But who was the rider . . . ? Den smells something darker than horse manure in the country air.

With so many openly hostile villagers on one side and Nina's mysterious family on the other, can Den solve this mystery, or will the real killer gallop away from justice once more?