The Healers

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, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Shetland, Vera Stanhope and Two Rivers crime series.

Isolated farmer Ernie Bowles is found lying on his kitchen floor, gruesomely strangled . . .

News of the murder comes 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, or the loss of control in a fight. But Bowles kept to himself and had lived alone since his mother’s death. Then a seemingly unconnected women is 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?

Praise for Ann Cleeves:

‘The new Queen of Crime’ – Sunday Mirror

‘One of the best natural writers of detective fiction’ – Daily Express