The Hunters

Author(s): Peter Hill

Location(s): Suffolk

Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

Era(s): 1970s

It is 1975 and there are no sophisticated aids to help shrewd and earthy Chief-Superintendent Staunton of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad and his amorous young assistant, Detective Inspector Wyndsor when they arrive in a time-warped East Anglian village in the east of England to investigate the death of a local girl.

While most of the villagers are silently doing their best to hinder the enquiry, including the unhelpful local squire and his glamorous but sinister daughter, Wyndsor makes a shocking discovery—a black magic chapel, which had as its altarpiece a huge phallus.

This is a place where old ways still hold sway, where animosities are pursued through the generations and where outsiders are viewed with the utmost suspicion.

Here the murderer lives, embedded in this introverted society. On several occasions as the search proceeds the reader is aware that they are looking at the murderer—without the possibility of identification—and it becomes increasingly certain that he will kill again unless Staunton and Wyndsor can hunt him down.

The author of this impressive novel has created the vivid realities of life, and death, at Bacton Ford and introduced the reader to two memorable detectives.

The Hunters is the first in the Staunton and Wyndsor series of classic police procedural murder mysteries set in various locations in Britain.
The others are The Liars, The Enthusiast and The Savages.

These books were previously published worldwide, by major publishing houses, in hard and paperback editions and several translations and are now being offered as eBooks.

Each novel is a stand-alone story, but with the same major protagonists. They are part of a series, not an ongoing serial, so could be read in any order.

Review this Book