Publisher's Synopsis
Across the nation the election was on a knife-edge. In Chipping Bonhunt it was murder. A councillor has gone missing and young Chloe Gatiss makes a gruesome discovery in the old railway cutting. Has the battle over all the proposed new housing turned nasty? When a developer lies to the police and another councillor is attacked in broad daylight, Inspector Wendy Pepper has to work out who profits from this mayhem. Meanwhile, in Norfolk a terrified prisoner awaits their fate.
