Bold Slasher

Summer 1992. Young graduate Louise Reeves marries rich landowner Johnny Longmarch and becomes mistress of the magnificent house Tressy on the Rainecourt Estate in picturesque Oxfordshire. Life seems perfect but there are serpents in this Eden. Tressy is a cursed place with a dark past, haunted by the ghost of the thirteenth-century, wife-killing crusader Black Tancred. In 1978, Johnny's mother Delphine was horrifically murdered in one of the gardens of the house. It was assumed that she was the sixth victim of the notorious serial killer, the Cotswold Slasher, who was never caught and still roams the surrounding countryside. But there were other suspects too - her husband, Henry Longmarch, and the twelve members of a folklore society who performed a strange pagan ritual at Tressy on the day of the murder. Louise befriends the ethereal Una Rainecourt, last member of the aristocratic family that originally owned Tressy. But Una has a terrible secret linking her to Delphine's murder. And the killings are about to start again...A chilling, occult tale of murder, witchcraft and folk horror with a shock ending.