Wicker Girl

A fire in the woods. A village full of secrets. A case that won't stay buried.

In Ravensbane Wood, the flames burned through the night.

In their ashes, police find a charred human foot - and a case riddled with lies, fear, and long-held grudges.

When DI Kumar and DS Stoker arrive in the isolated North Yorkshire village of Ashenby, they find more questions than answers.

A secretive religious commune lurks in the woods.

The villagers turn their faces away.

Whispers of old witch trials and standing stones muddy every lead.

And somewhere among them, a strange young girl watches - and waits.

As DCI Frank Finnegan tries to keep the investigation grounded, his detectives are dragged into a tangle of superstition, buried crimes, and brutal reality.

In Ashenby, the past isn't dead.

It's waiting.

And in Ravensbane Wood, not all who vanish are lost.

Because not all fires cleanse what they burn.

The past always finds a way home.