Sixteen Horses

** Featured on BBC Two’s Between The Covers **

‘Irresistible’ - Val McDermid, author of 1979 ‘Breathtaking’ - Daily Mail ‘Totally gripping’ - Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient ‘Read it, read it, read it’ - B. P. Walter, author of The Dinner Guest ‘Original’ - Sophie Hannah, author of Haven’t They Grown

Near the dying English seaside town of Ilmarsh, local police detective Alec Nichols and forensic vet Cooper Allen are set upon a chain of crimes when they discover sixteen horses’ heads on a farm, each buried with a single eye facing the low winter sun.

In the dark days of their investigation, the town slips into panic and paranoia. Anyone could be a suspect and as Alec Nichols struggles to find a motive, more mysterious events begin to occur and all signs are pointing to something deadly lurking in the ground itself …

Sixteen Horses is the debut literary thriller from an extraordinary talent, Greg Buchanan.