Sixteen horses /
Buchanan, Greg, 1989-
Sixteen horses / 16 horses Greg Buchanan. - First U.S. edition. - 452 pages ; 24 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
Veterinary forensic medicine--Fiction.
Pathogenic microorganisms--Fiction.
Crime--Investigation--Fiction.
Small cities--Fiction.
Police--England--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
Novels.
Sixteen horses / 16 horses Greg Buchanan. - First U.S. edition. - 452 pages ; 24 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
Veterinary forensic medicine--Fiction.
Pathogenic microorganisms--Fiction.
Crime--Investigation--Fiction.
Small cities--Fiction.
Police--England--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
Novels.