J.D. Robins

Full Length, Thriller

3m, 4f

Interior

Ben Seaton is the new rector of Wychcombe Magna and is slowly gaining acceptance with the locals. His wife Diana feels decidedly out of place and even rather threatened as a strange woman, Jessy, keeps walking into the house without any invitation and the church bells suddenly ring at odd times. When a statue is vandalized and a placard depicting a swastika is found in the graveyard Diana’s uneasiness escalates. Then the unthinkable happens — there is a murder at the rectory. Skeletons surface from the village’s recent past — the death of a young girl, the involvement of a local man in a bullion robbery — and it becomes apparent that not everyone in the village is who they say they are. And then a second person is attacked …

Diana Seaton: nervy, fragile; early 40s; Jessy Beer: strange, threatening; indeterminate age; Ben Seaton: intelligent, likeable; early 40s; Emmeline Rawlins: forceful; elderly; Meg Bestwood: down-to-earth, jolly; early 40s; Tim Bestwood: confident, successful; early 40s; Peter Hamlyn: quiet, courteous; early 40s