When the Dead Come Calling

· Burrowhead Book 1 · Bolinda · Narrated by Julie Maisey
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The smell back here is the smell of something rotten, worse than the blood on my clothes ... I’d scream if I could but my voice catches in my throat. I stumble back and the shapes follow me, stretching high above me and I fall, my ankle twisting, my arms grabbing onto nothing and above me there’s only the height and the stone as my head smashes onto the floor. In the first of the Burrowhead Mysteries, an atmospheric murder investigation unearths the brutal history of a village where no one is innocent. When psychotherapist Alexis Cosse is found murdered in the playground of the sleepy northern village of Burrowhead, DI Strachan and her team of local police investigate, exposing a maelstrom of racism, misogyny and homophobia simmering beneath the surface of the village. Shaken by the revelations and beginning to doubt her relationship with her husband, DI Strachan discovers something lurking in the history of Burrowhead, while someone – or something – equally threatening is hiding in the strange and haunted cave beneath the cliffs ...

About the author

Helen Sedgwick is the author of The Comet Seekers, to be published in 2016 by Harvill Secker in the UK and HarperCollins in the US and Canada. Helen has an MLitt in Creative Writing from Glasgow University. She won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2012 and her writing has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and widely published in magazines and anthologies. As a literary editor, Helen has worked as the managing director of Cargo Publishing and managing editor of Gutter, and she founded Wildland Literary Editors in 2012. Before writing her debut novel, Helen was a research physicist with a PhD in Physics from Edinburgh University.

Julie Maisey is a British actress. She has appeared at Hampstead Theatre, the Royal National Theatre and on TV in The Bill, EastEnders and various sitcoms including Birds of a Feather and Holding the Baby. Voiceover highlights include the BAFTA-nominated and British Animation Award-winning Dad's Dead (Best Short), People's Britain (Best Comedy) and a number of cartoons for the AIR scheme with Channel 4.

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