A Month of Murder

1 May 1976. Thirteen-year- old ‘Minnie’ Hargreaves is murdered and her body half buried on a building site at the edge of Holme Hill a village in West Yorkshire where she lived with her parents. David Harrison a near-neighbour is convicted of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment. He dies in prison.. 43 years later Holme Hill becomes the scene of two more murders: Rhys Williams a lonely old widower found on a bench by the village cricket ground. A week later Peter Smith is found face down at the organ in Salem Chapel. Both corpses have a quotation from the Bible pinned to them along with dates - the first two when Williams and Smith were murdered; the last two dates in the future.. DCI Donald May heads the investigation. Born in Holme Hill his family worshipped at Salem. The murders seem inexplicable: two blameless old men; seemingly the same murderer. A darker past emerges as May DS Viv Trubshaw and DC Charlie Riggs investigate. Then a third murder as forecast.. May has seven days to the fourth. He discovers much more than just the murderer: all in one month; a month of murder.