Destroying Angel

When Gregory Chambers, the manager of the Easterly Grange Hotel, fails to turn up to the owner's funeral and later to perform his rather unconventional Punch and Judy show, the local villagers are concerned.<br> A search of the local woods, where Gregory spent much of his time collecting mushrooms, uncovers a severed hand belonging to the missing man and it is not long before Barnaby and Troy are investigating a whole series of killings and attempted murders.