Gripping . . . tremendously well told . . . quite exceptional" SUNDAY TIMES

It was a white Christmas. A pet cat was found strangled in a snow drift. A road accident on the moor had set free a notorious child-killer. A mentally defective girl had disappeared from the village party. Snow blocked the country lanes. Telephone wires, blown down in the storm, isolated the village . . .

It was the time of the Straw Dogs!