The Cutting StoneSarah HilaryLabel: HarvillDescription: A body buried between rock and ice at a Peak District beauty spot reveals a secret too close to home for Joe and Laurie in this second DS Joseph Ashe thriller.When a half-frozen body is found under the Bawd Stone a local landmark linked with pagan ritual DI Laurie Bower’s first call is to her best detective sergeant Joseph Ashe. On leave after a traumatic case Joe is still haunted by the tragedy he survived 17 years ago when a school bus veered off the road and everyone drowned except him.Joe and Laurie join forces as this new case takes them back to her old stamping ground of inner-city Manchester. But when the body is identified as Godfrey Hulme her dead sister’s counsellor it quickly becomes a deeply personal murder investigation. The truth of what happened in both the past and the present will have devastating consequences for Laurie and Joe alike.
