# The Cutting Stone

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- Book: [The Cutting Stone](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-hilary/the-cutting-stone) ([The Cutting Stone.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-hilary/the-cutting-stone.md))
- Authors: [Sarah Hilary](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-hilary)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-18-0784-265-9
- Published: 2027-04-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

A body buried between rock and ice, at a Peak District beauty spot, reveals a secret too close to home for Joe and Laurie in this second DS Joseph Ashe thriller. When a half-frozen body is found under the Bawd Stone, a local landmark linked with pagan ritual, DI Laurie Bower’s first call is to her best detective sergeant, Joseph Ashe. On leave after a traumatic case, Joe is still haunted by the tragedy he survived 17 years ago, when a school bus veered off the road and everyone drowned except him. Joe and Laurie join forces as this new case takes them back to her old stamping ground of inner-city Manchester. But when the body is identified as Godfrey Hulme, her dead sister’s counsellor, it quickly becomes a deeply personal murder investigation. The truth of what happened, in both the past and the present, will have devastating consequences for Laurie and Joe alike.