The Mushroom Man When Georgina, eight-year-old daughter of businessman Miles Dewhurst, is kidnapped, DI Charlie Priest and his colleagues at Heckley police station soon start to fear the worst. Dewhurst himself is devastated and willing to give up everything to raise the ransom that might be required. But Charlie is not convinced that Dewhurst is all that he seems.
Meanwhile, these are dangerous times for clergymen. Two are found dead under suspicious circumstances and a third is murdered by a shotgun blast - The deaths are linked by a picture of a Destroying Angel toadstool, but why would a serial killer focus on men of the cloth?
As he races against time to find Georgina, and happens upon the first real clue in the hunt for the Mushroom Man, events take a dramatic personal turn, for Charlie is more deeply embroiled in one of the cases than he realises. "Pawson's excellent debut ... is actually bettered in his second work. Charlie Priest, a sort of Yorkshire Inspector Morse, is a likeable hero. There's plenty of flair in the plot, and it all gels magnificently in this tale of a serial vicar-murderer" Yorkshire Post.
"An intellectual and earthy detective, Charlie Priest could well become for Yorkshire what Wycliffe is for Cornwall." Publishing News.
The Mushroom Man
The Mushroom Man