Author Description

<p>'Daffodils freeze and shrubs cry in Stormhaven. They call it 'The Beast from the East' and the temperature's unholy; it crucifies all with cruel nails of ice; a Siberian chill piercing their bones. And there will be a further killing tonight - human, not plant; boy, not man.'</p> <p><br></p> <p>So begins another case for Abbot Peter and D.I. Tamsin Shah, with the discovery of a young man's body at the seaside beauty spot of Splash Point. He drowns beneath a cold, uncaring moon; and as P.C. Banville observes, it proves a 'hungry death', not be sated by one unfortunate corpse. There must, and will, be more.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The investigation will lead the Abbot and Shah into deep but different danger. And it's not just the killer they need worry about.</p> <p>Pray for the coming of spring.</p> <p><br></p>