DERBYSHIRE detectives Diane Fry and Ben Cooper have little to go on when the body of a well-dressed man is found on the moor.

But as the case unravels they become almost submerged by a wealth of evidence and leads which involve them in the violent world of the hunt and hunt saboteurs, of horse theft and the shady side of the meat trade.

There’s plenty to get your teeth into here, with Booth sparing no grisly detail in many instances, and there is always a constant link to a grim past that adds an extra edge of darkness to an already twilight tale.