Lydmouth

When a spinster is found bludgeoned to death in the church and a valuable chalice is missing, suspicion falls on the new vicar. Journalist, Jill Francis, soon finds herself involved despite the antagonism of Inspector Richard Thornhill.

When a young woman's body is found in the swollen river, the police have to decide how it got there. She is identified as Mattie, a waitress, but why are Lydmouth's leading citizens so keen to prove that her death was accidental?

When a widower is found dead with a bottle of whisky beside him the verdict should be suicide but Inspector Thornhill and reporter Jill Francis soon realise that there is much more to consider.

In the close-knit community of the respectable market town of Lydmouth, a terrible crime is about to be discovered... Two provincial newspapers are in the throes of a bitter circulation war. And there's no pleasure left in the life of DCI Richard Thornhill. Only a corpse, a television set and the promise of truth to come...

As a young police officer, Inspector Richard Thornhill saw and did things that still haunt his dreams and make him fear for his sanity. Now, in Lydmouth, the past has come back to claim him and he is under suspicion of murder. His wife Edith and his former lover Jill Francis form an uneasy alliance and try to help him.