Gallows Drop is Maria Hannah& 39;s sixth gripping crime novel featuring DCI Kate Daniels. At dawn on a lonely stretch of road a body is found hanging from an ancient gallows the morning after a country show. Hours earlier DCI Kate Daniels had seen the victim alive. With her leave period imminent she& 39;s forced to step aside when DCI James Atkins is called in to investigate. There& 39;s bad blood between them. When Kate discovers that Atkins& 39; daughter was an eyewitness to a fight involving the victim the two detectives lock horns and he& 39;s bumped off the case. It& 39;s the trigger for a vicious attack on Kate exposing a secret she& 39;s kept hidden for years and unearthing an even darker one. Shaken but undeterred Kate sets out to solve a case that has shocked a close-knit village community. As suspects emerge she uncovers a curious historical connection with a hangman a culture of systematic bullying a web of deceit and a deep-seated psychosis any one of which could be motive for murder. . Language: English