Suppression and Suspicion

Edmund Harkins has gone missing.

Few would confess to liking the man – a wife-beater and distinctly unsavoury character – so when some hungry pigs disinter his corpse in a shallow grave, there is hardly an outpouring of grief.

However, this intensifies the problem Sir Hugh faces: as bailiff of Bampton it is his duty to discover who has slain Edmund. But if he does, he will earn the enmity of villagers who are pleased the scoundrel is dead, and who knows what repercussions might follow?

To further complicate Hugh’s life, the Bishop of Exeter has sent a new vicar to Bampton, his nephew, who behaves in an obnoxious manner to Lady Katherine’s maid, and seems obsessed with discovering any heretical views Hugh might hold. The vicar also, it transpires, is contributing to the unhealthy atmosphere of suppression and suspicion that has come to pervade the village…

Author: Mel Starr
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Lion Fiction
Published: 09/23/2022
Series: Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.04w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781782643548
Language: English

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