With the casualty rate rising, the pressure is on Detective Superintendent Frank Shapiro to catch the blackmailing killer. But the mastermind slips through his fingers just as these precious hours slip through Castlemere's. Along with her professional troubles, Detective Inspector Liz Graham finds she has problems of her own. Panic in the town is at the boiling point when someone suggests her gentle art teacher husband is to blame, and her world begins to crumble. To make matters worse, her sergeant, Cal Donovan, disappears from his autumnal cruise into the watery wastes of the Castlemere Levels. Cal's deserted boat has been located near the tine village of East Beekham, a flyspeck on the map where no one is quite what he seems.
Then again, since the gentle have turned violent and the peaceful turned accusatory, nothing in the entire region is what it seems...
Jo Bannister was born in Lancashire, England, and now lives in Northern Ireland. She left school at sixteen to write for her local newspaper, leaving as editor in 1988 with several awards in journalism. Changelings is the seventh in her Castlemere Mystery series.