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At first glance it appears to be a straightforward shooting accident...After ten years with the Greater Manchester Police, Detective Inspector Clare Morell thought she'd seen a lot of baffling cases; but newly assigned to deep in the heart of the West Country, she finds herself in an unfamiliar world. There are shepherds and Romanys, who speak in strange tongues; a Lord Byron lookalike army captain and a lethal killer who just might be an ETA trained hit-man. The strange lowland heath in the beat where she now works triggers an old childhood fear and there is the growing sense that her new home is not only disturbing but somehow threatening...And then... there's Ellis.