When the Dead Come Calling : The Burrowhead Mysteries

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Burrowhead looks like a place where nothing ever happens. That illusion shatters when psychotherapist Alexis Cosse is found murdered in a children’s playground, forcing the village to confront a crime it would rather forget. In When the Dead Come Calling, DI Georgie Strachan leads the investigation into a community bound by silence and shared guilt.

As questioning begins, the mask slips. Beneath Burrowhead’s quiet routines lie entrenched racism, misogyny, and homophobia, all protected by long habit and mutual denial. Each revelation leaves Georgie more unsettled, not only about the case but about her own life, as cracks begin to appear in her marriage.

The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that this violence is not new. Burrowhead’s past holds its own darkness, one that refuses to stay buried. With rumours circling a strange cave beneath the cliffs and fear tightening its grip, Georgie must face the possibility that the village is haunted not just by memory, but by something still waiting in the shadows.