A would-be politician is available battered to death in the kitchen of his expensive house in a lovely Oxfordshire town. His wife’s alibi can be full of openings and there’s another woman in the backdrop. And how about his apparently mild-mannered political rival?

DI Hillary Greene attempts to get to the bottom of this perplexing murder. She certainly doesn’t think the prime believe is really as guilty as everyone feels.

Just like she’s about to make a discovery, everything is turned upside down by a fatal development in another case she is working on .

Can Hillary come across the murderer and can she survive a brush with among Oxford’s most dangerous criminals?