The Body Politic

In Catherine Aird's gripping mystery, an engineer’s suspicious death raises questions about the value of individual lives in the shadow of corporate greed. After Alan Ottershaw returns home to Calleshire following an incident abroad, his sudden demise at a war reenactment appears too convenient, prompting detective C. D. Sloan and his bumbling partner, Constable Crosby, to delve into the tangled web of threats and peculiar occurrences. As they navigate the complexities of an international mining scandal, they uncover a community desperate to bury the past—but at what cost?