Landed Gently

Having been invited to spend Christmas in the country fishing for pike Gently finds himself hunting a completely different predator when a guest at Merely Hall a nearby stately home is found dead at the foot of the grand staircase on Christmas morning. At first the tragedy is assumed to be a simple accident but Gently is not one to jump to conclusions and is soon in no doubt whatsoever that this was murder. It's a cold Christmas in the country when the air is sharp with the chill of murder.