Rack, ruin and murder
When old Monty Bickerstaffe finds a body in his drawing room it comes as a surprise. Monty lives alone in a crumbling Cotswold manor house and the last things he wants is the police sniffing around his property. The identity of the corpse and how it was left in Monty's home remain a mystery. The locals swear they've seen nothing unusual and Monty's relatives claims they've never set eyes on the stiff before. But Inspector Jess Campbell is convinced that someone's lying and, with the help of Superintendent Ian Carter, she must dig deep into Monty's family history to reveal the truth ...