Spiritual

John Holt was the same age as Bill Overend but joined the force two years after him but they had become firm friends from the moment they met.

The beautiful Downshire village of Clerembeax St Giles was situated to the west of Abbeyvale located between Grace Hill and Bushy Down and on the outskirts was the Clerembeax Palace Hotel and Spa.

Martin Noakes lived alone in the small country village of Mornington-By-Mere in the Finchbottom Vale which nestled between the Ancient Dancingdean Forest and the rolling Pepperstock Hills.

Downshire is a relatively small English county but that didn’t bother its inhabitants, they may not have been the biggest but they were in no doubt that it was the best, and that belief was no truer than in the southern town off Abbottsford, which was Downshire’s administrative capital and the seat of the Downshire government.