It’s high summer in Pitfourie, and children are roaming wild in the fields and woods around their homes. But when eleven-year-old Ruth McAllister and her best friend claim to have been chased by a hooded hangman in Garble Wood, opinion is divided. Is there really someone dressing up as ‘the hangie’ and menacing children, or are the girls lying?
Ruth’s mother Fiona is sure that her wayward daughter is playing an elaborate prank, but her husband Steve disagrees, piling yet more fuel on the smouldering resentments that have been building in their marriage. Then Fiona makes a discovery that casts a new light on her break-up with reprobate landowner Hector Forbes all those years ago, and she must make an impossible decision about her future.
DC Claire Castleford is trying to forget her own ill-advised fling with Hector and focus on determining whether ‘the hangie’ actually exists, while Patty Larsen, the new music teacher at Glencoil, has an agenda of her own as she and Hector’s brother Damian delve into the circumstances of a murder.
But someone is watching them all.
And soon, in the cool, quiet shade of the summer woods, an unimaginable horror will play out that will throw into doubt everything Claire thought she knew about Hector Forbes.
Genre: Mystery
Ruth’s mother Fiona is sure that her wayward daughter is playing an elaborate prank, but her husband Steve disagrees, piling yet more fuel on the smouldering resentments that have been building in their marriage. Then Fiona makes a discovery that casts a new light on her break-up with reprobate landowner Hector Forbes all those years ago, and she must make an impossible decision about her future.
DC Claire Castleford is trying to forget her own ill-advised fling with Hector and focus on determining whether ‘the hangie’ actually exists, while Patty Larsen, the new music teacher at Glencoil, has an agenda of her own as she and Hector’s brother Damian delve into the circumstances of a murder.
But someone is watching them all.
And soon, in the cool, quiet shade of the summer woods, an unimaginable horror will play out that will throw into doubt everything Claire thought she knew about Hector Forbes.
Genre: Mystery
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