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    A January Killing
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    A January Killing

    By Paul Toolan

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    January, white frost, a pitch-black night.

    Despite the cold, Detective Inspector Zig Batten is enjoying his first West Country 'Wassail' - and ancient apple-orchard ceremony. His partner's young daughter is this year's Wassail Queen. A torchlight procession ends in the ritual firing of shotguns to scare 'evil spirits' from the trees and trigger this year's apple blossom.

    But not every shotgun fires blanks, and next day it's a dead body that has blossomed in the orchard.

    What is the killer's motive? Why this victim? And who is sending anonymous letters to the villagers of Stockton Marsh, where Batten's own Sergeant lives?

    Winter closes in, but murder does not stop with the dead - it tunnels into the living too, as Batten and Ball discover. Will their own endangered lives and relationships ever be quite the same?

    As snow descends, the police make ready. Until another body is found...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul Toolan
    Release dateJan 27, 2016
    ISBN9781310535888
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    A January Killing
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    Paul Toolan

    Paul Toolan is a bearded, left-handed, non-swimming Piscean who was born in urban Yorkshire but now cheerfully admits to being a southern softie living in rural Somerset. After a rewarding career in Colleges and Universities he wrote books/lyrics for musicals before 'turning to crime'. A Killing Tree' and 'A January Killing' are the first of the Detective Inspector Zig Batten series - rural noir crime novels with their fair share of dark humour, set in the apple-orchard landscape of England's West Country. The third, 'An Easter Killing', is on sale now. Paul writes plays and short stories, too. Like Zig Batten, he enjoys walking, gardens, fishing and an occasional whisky. Unlike him, he enjoys sport and the taste of mushrooms and loves travelling to sunnier climes - Greece in particular.

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