Picture of Innocence

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‘Telling him that she might be pregnant had been a desperate measure that at least called a halt to the violence while she worked out where to go from here. And there was only one way that she could see...’ More than half of Bartonshire, it seemed, had entertained murderous thoughts at some time or another about bullying farmer Bernard Bailey. Which might have explained why his property was protected by more security devices than Fort Knox. All, sadly, to no avail. After six months of highly publicized death threats, Bernard’s bloodiest corpse is discovered in his isolated farmhouse—launching DCI Lloyd and DI Judy Hill into the most unusual murder enquiry of their careers. For as the evidence is sifted, the question for once isn’t ‘Who stood to gain from the death?’ but ‘Why didn’t they do it sooner?’