The plot concerns a crime of passion in an Essex commuter village. When the naked body of a woman is found near the Essex commuter village of Branston the locals are as baffled as they are shocked. Surely not here. A novel featuring Crown Prosecutor Helen West and Detective Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey, the central characters of Fyfield's first novel "A Question of Guilt", scratch at the thin veneer of gentility they discover a hidden world of passion, envy and betrayal - primed and ready to explode . . .