Dead Serious

From Susannah Stacey, author of eight Superintendent Bone mysteries, the penultimate installment of the ';polished detective seriesBone, the attractive, unflappable British copper [is] witty and literate' (The New York Times Review of Books).

Biddinghurst, a reputedly haunted village in Kent, seems to be home to a serial killer. Superintendent Robert Bone steps in to investigate, and instinctively tosses out the obvioussuggesting instead an unlikely, but disturbingly plausible, scenario for the crimes.