The marriage of two popular townsfolk has brought welcome smiles but there’s trouble afoot for private investigator, and now undercover Met detective, Samson O’Brien and his chalk-and-cheese partner in the Dales Detective Agency, Delilah Metcalfe. Delilah’s brother, Will Metcalfe, is under suspicion of murder and it would seem to be an open-and-shut case... unless Samson and Delilah can dig deep to discover who the real culprit is.
And their woes are only multiplied when ecologist Ross Irwin – who is set to make a pivotal decision on a contentious local planning application – is found dead, leaving the finger of blame pointing firmly at Delilah’s volatile older brother, Will Metcalfe.