West Country Crime Mysteries

A British police detective must determine who silenced a singer forever... DI Dan Hellier has returned to Exeter under a cloud. But a chance for redemption comes when the body of a talented young singer is found in the woods. When links are revealed to a recording studio boss, a predatory gang, and a school music teacher, Hellier has his work cut out. Before any more innocent people are put in danger, Hellier will need to untangle a web of lies-and work out which of many suspects silenced a promising voice.

In Devon, England, two bodies in a bog send a police detective into the middle of a murky mystery ... When an amateur archaeologist makes an unusual find, she calls a scholar at a local college. But this discovery-two headless, handless bodies buried in a bog on Dartmoor-doesn't re-quire a professor but the police. DI Dan Hellier isn't sure how he can identify the victims when nobody has reported them missing. And the tension mounts when the death of a young man plunges Hellier into the murky world of the Garrett family. Could the peaceful, family-run Animal Rescue Centre really be a cover for murder and other criminal activity? Hellier is about to learn just how far people will go to get what they want. And this investigation will challenge Hellier's decisions as he races to catch a murderer before it's too late.