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The Cutting Stone

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The Cutting Stone

By: Sarah Hilary
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A body buried between rock and ice, at a Peak District beauty spot, reveals a secret too close to home for Joe and Laurie in this second DS Joseph Ashe thriller.

When a half-frozen body is found under the Bawd Stone, a local landmark linked with pagan ritual, DI Laurie Bower’s first call is to her best detective sergeant, Joseph Ashe. On leave after a traumatic case, Joe is still haunted by the tragedy he survived 17 years ago, when a school bus veered off the road and everyone drowned except him.

Joe and Laurie join forces as this new case takes them back to her old stamping ground of inner-city Manchester. But when the body is identified as Godfrey Hulme, her dead sister’s counsellor, it quickly becomes a deeply personal murder investigation. The truth of what happened, in both the past and the present, will have devastating consequences for Laurie and Joe alike.

'Gripping' Erin Kelly

'Triumphant' Elly Griffiths

© Sarah Hilary 2027 (P) Penguin Audio 2027

Crime Fiction Horror Mystery Police Procedurals
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Reviews

A triumphant second instalment, an even more complicated and multi-layered case for Joseph Ashe. Heart-warming and terrifying in equal measure.
Will chill you to the bone… Fantastic
Sarah Hilary’s writing is bitingly authentic and riven with emotional insight
Highly original. Taut. Propulsive. Beautifully written; atmospheric and immersive. I’ve long admired Hilary’s writing, but this is next level stuff
Gripping . . . Sarah Hilary brings places to life so evocatively it’s as though peaks are rising around the reader and branches cracking underfoot as the pages turn. And the characters; so real, so vulnerable, so alive
The superb second instalment of an exquisite and original series. Chillingly beautiful, atmospheric and enthralling. Already excited for the next one.
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