Local Gods

We’ll call him Pete Collins. It’s the name he’s using for now and is as good as any.

Pete’s in the killing business. For the right price he’s your man, the one who’ll satisfy a grievance, punish a wrongdoer, deliver vengeance or spite with maximum prejudice, make your problems disappear…

Things don’t always go according to plan. Sometimes a job goes bad and you have to get out, lie low, disappear for a bit, someplace quiet.

Someplace like Little Baddington, a beautiful hamlet, nestled deep in the rural Cotswolds. The perfect place to hold up for a while. A place to take in good clean country air, relax, unwind and reflect, a place steeped in the traditions of the old country.

Not all traditions are pleasant.

The good folk of Little Baddington have a few secrets of their own, and Pete Collins is about to find out how this little hamlet has remained untouched by the outside world, the type of bargain it’s struck for that privilege and with whom.

He’s going to find out what a Local God can do….

From the author of The Long View and In Winters Garden, comes another gut-wrenching journey into darkness, where nothing and no-one is quite as they seem. A heady fusion of folk horror and underworld retribution that will leave you breathless..