Brian Glover

Home from the Rugby Club after taking a nasty knock in a match, Connon finds his wife even more uncommunicative than usual. After passing out on his bed for five hours, he comes downstairs to discover her dead. This is a job for Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel and Sergeant Pascoe.

Cissy Kohler has been in jail for almost thirty years for murder. Now she is out and an inquiry into this seeming miscarriage of justice is ordered. The convenient scapegoat is the man in charge of the original investigation, but Daliziel is convinced he was straight and starts to investigate on his own...