A Ring O'Bells Killing: Zig Batten 6 (A Killing Tree, Band 6) - Softcover

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On Charles Paine’s grave, the inscription reads:

The watcher’s heart,
It stops, it starts,
When a dancer falls...

Elliot Paine refuses to believe twin brother Charles, a demon Morris Dancer, died by accident. 'Zig' Batten, now a private investigator, reluctantly takes the case - despite viewing Morris Dance as a hare-brained ritual.
When a chorus girl is viciously attacked, and a second Morris Dancer death comes to light, Zig and newly-promoted Inspector Ball, begin to wonder why dancers - Morris and otherwise - have suddenly become an endangered species.

Investigations, private and public, reveal a soup of lies, domestic violence, infidelity and revenge, and the darker past of Charles Paine. When Zig flies to an international festival in Greece - in the dubious company of Elliot Paine’s Morris Dance group - not even the help of Grigoris, Zig’s old Greek police pal, is enough to unlock the puzzle or avert danger.

Back in Somerset, Zig and Ball are prematurely relieved. As they should know by now, crime is never as straightforward as it seems...

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