Rooted in Evil by Ann Granger is set in the Cotswold village of Weston Saint Ambrose & features Inspector Jess Campbell & Superintendent Ian Carter in their fifth murder mystery When the body of a man with his brains blown out is found in a Cotswold wood it looks like suicide But looks can be deceptive & it doesn't take long for the police to identify that there's more to the case than meets the eye People's stories don't add up & when Superintendent Ian Carter & Inspector Jess Campbell start probing it becomes clear that the dead man had ruffled more than a few feathers in this close-knit community His stepsister had been bailing him out of his financial troubles
- much against her husband's wishes
- but with his money worries still mounting the victim had become a desperate man As Jess & Ian dig deeper & deeper into the case a cover-up is exposed & bitter resentment rises to the surface to reveal a killer