<p><b>** Featured on BBC Two's <i>Between The Covers **</i></b><br><br><b>'Irresistible' - Val McDermid, author of <i>1979</i></b><br><b>'Breathtaking . . . This is crime writing of a striking calibre' - <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br>Near the dying English seaside town of Ilmarsh, local police detective Alec Nichols discovers sixteen horses’ heads on a farm, each buried with a single eye facing the low winter sun. After forensic veterinarian Cooper Allen travels to the scene, the investigators soon uncover evidence of a chain of crimes in the community – disappearances, arson and mutilations – all culminating in the reveal of something deadly lurking in the ground itself.<br><br>In the dark days that follow, the town slips into panic and paranoia. Everything is not as it seems. Anyone could be a suspect. And as Cooper f
