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Summary: DS Jimmy Suttle is called to a brutal murder in the picturesque Devon village of Lympstone. Harriet Reilly, a local GP, has been found disembowelled in the bedroom of her partner. His estranged wife, Lizzie, has abandoned Portsmouth, moved to Exeter and returned to journalism. She hears rumours of a local GP offering mercy killings to patients meeting certain criteria. The name of the GP is Harriet Reilly. So begin two investigations of the same crime: Operation Buzzard, with DS Suttle at its heart, and Lizzie, piecing together her own version of the events that led to Harriet Reilly's death.