IF YOU GO DOWN TO THE WOODS TODAY . . .

Constable Nick returns from leave to discover changes at work and at home. The youthful Inspector Pollock, fresh from police college, sees himself as a new broom, ready to reform rural policing. Meanwhile, there’s a new vicar in the village too.

But the real shocks in store for Constable Nick are not provided by these newcomers, but by something very familiar: the woods.

The surprises include a colony of unidentifiable exotic birds, a stolen poet, an unexploded bomb, and a missing child with a secret of her own.