Laughing Boy

Colinette Jones has everything to live for, and she's never late home. So when she fails to turn up for supper, and a body is discovered half a mile from her home, D.I. Charlie Priest has to make the call every mother dreads. Elsewhere, Laura Heeley is found dead at the side of an unlit lane - a single stab wound the only sign of violence. What connects the two women? Constricted by the foot and mouth crisis, Priest must trap the killer before he strikes again. Perhaps the fresh gales atop Britian's highest peaks might get the old grey matter working...