I'm sorry, but this didn't work for me at all. The protagonist was an unpleasant creep. He was also incompetent - by all means, believe the suspect when he says there's nothing in those suspicious outbuildings! You've checked some of them, that should be enough - which wouldn't bother me so much except the narrative never calls him on any of it. It's not out of the realm of possibility that an unpleasant, corrupt, incompetent creep could be an interesting character, but Chaucer isn't. Not for me, anyway, and certainly not when he's embedded in a plot that tries to cram as much sexual abuse as possible into one tiny village. It's unpleasantness piled upon unpleasantness.

I could look past that as an issue of taste. The prose, however, needs substantial work on a sentence level. This feels like a draft that hasn't seen an editor. And it needs an editor... preferably one who knows how to use a comma.