A DS Glyn Capaldi Secret

DS Glyn Capaldi is within medical center recuperating from concussion and the after-effects of an automobile crash.

But, even worse than that, a young woman is lifeless. She was the passenger in the automobile, whom he was bringing in for questioning following a evening operation within a remote rural location.

Glyn is initially riven with guilt and self-recrimination. Until he starts to question the possibility that it may not have been a major accident. But, if not, who had been the target? Had he made an enemy capable of attaining that level of preparing and implementation? Or, if not him, what could a young woman have possibly completed in her short country existence to warrant that amount of retribution?

Glyn, on sick leave, has time on his hands to explore the backdrop to these questions, and, in doing this, confronts a conspiracy that envelops arson, torture, blackmail, and leaves a clutter of bodies that further muddy the already murky waters.