Constable beneath the Trees

The brilliantly entertaining and heartwarming books behind the hit 90s TV series Heartbeat, one of the top ten most watched shows of the decade.

Constable Nick returns from leave to discover changes at work and at home. The youthful Inspector Pollock, fresh from police college, sees himself as a new broom, ready to reform rural policing.

Meanwhile, there’s a new vicar in the village too. But the real shocks in store for Constable Nick are not provided by these newcomers, but by something very familiar: the woods.

The surprises include a colony of unidentifiable exotic birds, a stolen poet, an unexploded bomb, and a missing child with a secret of her own.

Constable beneath the Trees was originally published in 1994.