Unhallowed Ground Author:Gillian White Georgina, an attractive, fortyish widow, is a London social worker in flight from unwanted tabloid celebrity when a child who is part of her caseload is killed. The little girl's father has been under suspicion of abusing the child, and Georgie is accused by the press of having ignored all the warning signs and abandoned the little girl... more » to her father's cruel, and finally fatal, beating. An inquiry exonerates Georgie, but the press doesn't forgive her, and she can't forgive herself, so when she inherits her brother's cottage in Devon, she is happy to go there and sort things out.
Furze Pen is a picturesque thatched cottage in a peaceful valley on Dartmoor. True, it was cold and isolated, but Georgie settles in and gets by restoring the cottage to something approaching livability and cleaning up the garden shed, in which something strange has clearly been going on. Then the terrors started...« less