Rooted in Evil by Ann Granger is set in the Cotswold village of Weston Saint Ambrose and
features Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Carter in their fifth murder mystery.
Carl Finch is a desperate man. Cut out of his stepfather's Will he is heavily in debt and
unless he can persuade his stepsister Hattie to bail him out he'll be in even more trouble.
Hattie's husband Guy has never liked Carl and wants his wife's inheritance for his own use so
Hattie agrees to meet Carl in secret to discuss his predicament. Little does she realise that
when she arrives at their meeting point in Crooked Man Wood she'll find Carl's dead body...
