The Cattle Market Murder
(2026)(The sixth book in the Blackmore Vale Mysteries series)
A novel by Anthony Frazer
A livestock dealer is found dead in a corridor at the Blackmore Vale Cattle Market. The weapon — a captive bolt pistol, a tool owned by a multitude of farms and businesses. The suspects? Every farmer at market that day.
DCI Rhys Morgan and DC Ben Carter face their most challenging case yet. Every farmer they interview has a grievance against the dead man. Every story sounds the same. And the killer is hiding in plain sight — indistinguishable from the dozens of struggling farmers who had reason to want Ray Hollick dead.
As the investigation deepens, it uncovers something far darker than sharp dealing. Hollick wasn't just squeezing farmers on prices — he was systematically destroying them. Acquiring their debts, engineering their collapse, taking their land. He'd done it before. He was doing it again.
But which of his victims decided that the only way to save their farm was to kill the man who was stealing it?
The sixth book in the Blackmore Vale Mysteries finds Rhys and Ben navigating the pressures of modern farming, the silence of proud men, and a community where everyone knows everyone — and nobody saw a thing.
Genre: Mystery
DCI Rhys Morgan and DC Ben Carter face their most challenging case yet. Every farmer they interview has a grievance against the dead man. Every story sounds the same. And the killer is hiding in plain sight — indistinguishable from the dozens of struggling farmers who had reason to want Ray Hollick dead.
As the investigation deepens, it uncovers something far darker than sharp dealing. Hollick wasn't just squeezing farmers on prices — he was systematically destroying them. Acquiring their debts, engineering their collapse, taking their land. He'd done it before. He was doing it again.
But which of his victims decided that the only way to save their farm was to kill the man who was stealing it?
The sixth book in the Blackmore Vale Mysteries finds Rhys and Ben navigating the pressures of modern farming, the silence of proud men, and a community where everyone knows everyone — and nobody saw a thing.
Genre: Mystery
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