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Ann Cleeves Classic Crime engaging mysteries to savour beloved characters to meet again

The Healers is the fifth mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series

Isolated farmer Ernie Bowles was found lying on his kitchen floor gruesomely strangled

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 the loss of control in a fight But Bowles seems to have kept himself to himself and had lived alone since his mothers death A seemingly unconnected women is then found strangled too surely two such killings in the same locality are more than just chilling coincidence

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