Shortlisted for the 2012 Crime Writers’ Association Fresh Blood Dagger for top first novel

Presenting DS Glyn Capaldi, fifty percent Welsh, half-Italian, all maverick. He’s fallen from sophistication in Cardiff and exiled to end up being the catch-all detective in the big bit in the centre that God offered to the sheep. A place where nothing of any significance is intended to happen, a place where supposedly he can perform little harm.

But trouble have a means of catching-up with Capaldi. Six males and a woman disappear in to the night. They don’t all reappear. Those that perform are good people who have a good explanation. Only Capaldi remains unconvinced.

When confronted with opposition in the locals, he delves deeper and starts to uncover a network of conflicts, betrayals and depravity that resonates below the outwardly calm surface of rural respectability. D.S. Capaldi is certainly back in the saddle.