Payback (Paperback, New ed)

Security consultant, ex-cop and some-time detective Billy Oliphant is suffering from more than just Winter blues. His girlfriend is on a year's sabbatical in North America and his exwife is honeymooning with her new husband, leaving Billy with their sixteen-year-old daughter. Sly, Billy's friend, thinks that a weekend at the Forestcrag Moorland Holiday Village will cheer him up. But having battled the worsening weather to get to Forestcrag, they discover things are far from idyllic. The park manager believes someone is poisoning his staff. Billy is reluctant to get involved, but soon has little choice when the Village is snowed in and the body of Eric Salkeld is discovered. It looks like a straightforward suicide. Left nominally in charge of the investigation by police unable to get to the crime scene, Billy feels that the suicide looks a little too staged. Amongst the guests trapped at the Village, there could be a killer. And, if the police are right that a recently escaped prisoner is heading for Forestcrag, perhaps more than one...