Ric Thompson

DEATH in a LOW PLACE Ric Thompson

A young man is in hospital, critically ill after a caving expedition under the Moors close to Rochfield. His fiance discovers that he has ingested a deadly toxin. There is a race to find the cause. Once the cause is known, she searches for the source and gets too close to an illegal dumping operation. She disappears. The police in her home town fail to discover her whereabouts and, in desperation, her fiance turns to Rochfield CID in the hopes that they can find her. A body is discovered close to the illegal dumping site and the team from Rochfield CID must track down her killer and try to unmask who is behind it. This is the penultimate book in the Rochfield Mystery series featuring DCI Sutherland, DI Simpson and the dedicated men and women of Rochfield Central Police Headquarters, and leads to the final book that brings the series full circle and reveals who killed Rose Masters in the first book Killing The Witch.