The Kill Call

On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor, hounds from the
local foxhunt find the body of a well-dressed man whose head has been
crushed. Yet an anonymous caller reports the same body lying half a mile
away.

Called in to investigate the discovery, detectives DS
Diane Fry and DC Ben Cooper become entangled in the violent world of
hunting and hunt saboteurs, horse theft and a little-known sector of the
meat trade. As Fry follows a complex trail of her own to unravel the
shady business interests of the murder victim, Cooper realizes that the
answer to the case might lie deep in the past.

History is
everywhere around him in the Peak District landscape — particularly in
the 'plague village' of Eyam, where an outbreak of Black Death has been
turned into a modern-day tourist attraction.

But, even as the
final solution is revealed, both Fry and Cooper find themselves having
to face up to the disturbing reality of the much more recent past.