It is the year 1826...Gentle, kindly, impoverished bachelor, Thomas Potts, is forced to fill the unwanted, unpopular post of 'Constable' of the Parish of Tardebrigge, Worcestershire. Timid by nature, physically weak, constantly hectored by his shrewish widowed mother, Tom is jeered at by the notorious, savagely violent 'Needle Pointers', and despised by the local ruling Gentry...But, when a homicidal maniac begins murdering and mutilating women, and terror spreads through the parish, it is Tom, 'The Reluctant Constable', who must identify, hunt down and confront this killer.
- ISBN10 0727877208
- ISBN13 9780727877208
- Publish Date 13 October 2008 (first published 8 May 2007)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 April 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Severn House Large Print Books
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English