A Killing Tree: Detective Inspector Zig Batten 1

"One of the best British murder mysteries I've read in a long time." Escape to the country? Or escape to murder? November, cider-apple time, and Inspector Zig Batten regrets his enforced transfer from urban Yorkshire to not-so-sleepy Somerset. When hikers discover a dead body, propped against a tree on a lonely hill, Batten needs every grain of his Northern sarcasm to help him seek the killer. Is it a coincidence the victim worked on the vast private estate of Wake Hall - home of a shifty h...