The Healers Paperback

<p><b>Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again</b><br><br><b><i>The Healers</i> is the fifth mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author of the Shetland, Vera Stanhope and Two Rivers crime series.</b><br><br>Isolated farmer Ernie Bowles was found lying on his kitchen floor, gruesomely strangled . . .<br><br>News of the murder came to Inspector Stephen Ramsay early on Monday morning and he fears this case will not be simple.

In his experience, most murders are straightforward: an explosion of family pressure, or the loss of control in a fight.

But Bowles kept to himself and lived alone since his mother&rsquo;s death.

Then a seemingly unconnected women is found strangled, too.

Surely two such killings in the same locality are more than just chilling coincidence?<br><br>When Ramsay hears of a third suspicious death, a very tenuous link between the victims takes on a new importance, for all were connected in some way to the Alternative Therapy Centre in Mittingford.

Could one of the healers be a killer?<br><br><b>Praise for Ann Cleeves:</b><br><br><b>The new Queen of Crime &ndash; <i>Sunday Mirror</i><br><br>One of the best natural writers of detective fiction &ndash; <i>Daily Express</i></b></p>