Called out to investigate a murder, Blake Hartley finds himself investigating a drug-smuggling ring. The master-mind behind it is the nephew of the murdered woman, Miss Bradshaw, the last of a mill dynasty. The unravelling of the crime is also the unravelling of the past. The Revd. D. I. Blake Hartley has a personal motive for solving the case - revenge He knows this and he knows it runs counter to his beliefs as a priest, yet there's little he can do about it. His sergeant, Ibrahim Khan, a Muslim, is also a deeply religious man. Born in West Yorkshire like his inspector, both share a love for the North Country and its people. The action of this fast-moving novel is set in the Yorkshire Pennine Countryside
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