Sixteen horses /
Buchanan, Greg, 1989-
Sixteen horses / - First edition. - 452 pages cm
"A literary thriller from stunning new talent Greg Buchanan, Sixteen Horses is a story of enduring guilt, trauma, and punishment, set in a small seaside community the rest of the world has left behind. In Ilmarsh, England, local police detective Alec Nichols discovers sixteen horses' heads on a farm, each buried with a single eye facing the low winter sun. After Veterinary Forensics expert Cooper Allen travels to the scene, a pathogen is discovered lurking within the soil, and many of those who have come into contact with the corpses grow critically ill. A series of crimes comes to light--disappearances, arson, and mutilations--and in the dark days that follow, the town slips into panic and paranoia. Everything is not as it seems. Anyone could be a suspect. And as Cooper finds herself unable to leave town, Alec is stalked by an unseen threat. The two investigators race to uncover the truth behind these frightened and insidious mysteries-no matter the cost"--
9781250246660 1250246660
2021005984
Detective and mystery stories.
Veterinary forensics--Fiction.
Pathogenic microorganisms--Fiction.
Small cities--Fiction.
Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.
Suspense fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.
PR6102.U3254 / S59 2021
823/.92
Sixteen horses / - First edition. - 452 pages cm
"A literary thriller from stunning new talent Greg Buchanan, Sixteen Horses is a story of enduring guilt, trauma, and punishment, set in a small seaside community the rest of the world has left behind. In Ilmarsh, England, local police detective Alec Nichols discovers sixteen horses' heads on a farm, each buried with a single eye facing the low winter sun. After Veterinary Forensics expert Cooper Allen travels to the scene, a pathogen is discovered lurking within the soil, and many of those who have come into contact with the corpses grow critically ill. A series of crimes comes to light--disappearances, arson, and mutilations--and in the dark days that follow, the town slips into panic and paranoia. Everything is not as it seems. Anyone could be a suspect. And as Cooper finds herself unable to leave town, Alec is stalked by an unseen threat. The two investigators race to uncover the truth behind these frightened and insidious mysteries-no matter the cost"--
9781250246660 1250246660
2021005984
Detective and mystery stories.
Veterinary forensics--Fiction.
Pathogenic microorganisms--Fiction.
Small cities--Fiction.
Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.
Suspense fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.
PR6102.U3254 / S59 2021
823/.92