Less Than Kind — David Armstrong

1968, and Charles Somerville, son of impoverished landowner Philip Somerville, is on the run from drug dealers in the Welsh Borders. In nearby Llantrisilli, newcomers James and Suzie find their sylvan idyll brutally and shockingly shattered by the voyeurism of their farming neighbor. Also in Border country is Birmingham policeman John Munroe, liaising with Welsh colleagues on a routine inquiry. But a mysterious death in the area draws him inexorably into an investigation that is to uncover a tangle of dangerous passions running beneath the outwardly calm rural scene.