Chris Chibnall

Death At The White Hart

Home to two rustic pubs, a small playground, and an array of thatched cottages, Fleetcombe is an idyllic village in Dorset. Detective Nicola Bridge returns to the south coast from Liverpool, longing for a quieter life; the last thing she expects is for the picturesque village to become a murderous crime scene. Pub landlord of The White Hart, Jim Ternan, is found dead, his body tied to a chair on a desolate road, with stag antlers protruding from his head. Alongside her sidekick, Harry Ward, Nicola is not short of suspects in a village bursting with secrets that cascade after the death of the omniscient pub landlord. Someone knows what happened to Jim and brazenly drank within the same pub vicinity the evening he was murdered. As the complex layers unfold, Nicola and Harry must catch a killer hiding in plain sight before they kill again.

With compelling characters and an intriguing mystery, Death At The White Hart is a suspenseful debut novel from one of Britain’s most acclaimed storytellers.

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Home to two rustic pubs, a small playground, and an array of thatched cottages, Fleetcombe is an idyllic village in Dorset. Detective Nicola Bridge returns to the south coast from Liverpool, longing for a quieter life; the last thing she expects is for the picturesque village to become a murderous crime scene. Pub landlord of The White Hart, Jim Ternan, is found dead, his body tied to a chair on a desolate road, with stag antlers protruding from his head. Alongside her sidekick, Harry Ward, Nicola is not short of suspects in a village bursting with secrets that cascade after the death of the omniscient pub landlord. Someone knows what happened to Jim and brazenly drank within the same pub vicinity the evening he was murdered. As the complex layers unfold, Nicola and Harry must catch a killer hiding in plain sight before they kill again.

With compelling characters and an intriguing mystery, Death At The White Hart is a suspenseful debut novel from one of Britain’s most acclaimed storytellers.