A Superstitious Death

Superstitious Death finds DI Pluke preparing for the annual shoggling festival in the small Yorkshire town of Crickledale. He realises something terrible has happened when Mrs Cholmondeley's bay tree withers and dies for no apparent reason.

His superstition is confirmed when he discovers the body of an attractive young woman in a shallow grave.

The woman's head injury suggests she was murdered, but there is nothing to identify her, and no young women have been reported missing.

All Pluke has to go on is the fact that she was buried with a mirror and the pathologist's declaration that she was a virgin.

Superstitious Death was first originally published in 1998.

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