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When Sarah Stephenson is found murdered and sexually abused in the Tyne-valley market town of Hexham, suspicion falls initially on her husband, George, and then on her lover, Tony Raine. The brutal murder and sodomy of a man with sexual connections to George's lover, Jenny Maxwell, bears some similar hallmarks and links to the first death but Detective Inspector Elspeth Sanderson is convinced that the connection is coincidental. When Tony is found dead in his burnt-out shop, the net widens considerably to include Jenny's brother and a neighbour and a long-time admirer of Sarah but at last closes in on Ivan Petrovski, a Polish immigrant and minder of the murdered shopkeeper.
Despite his confession and supporting DNA evidence, however, Elspeth decides that they have arrested the wrong man - at least for some if not for all of the crimes. She reflects on her previous murder case in The Gambia (*), where she was seconded to assist a case involving a rape and the death and brutalisation of a suspect in a major robbery she had been investigating. She tries to draw from that experience and recalls the suggestion that they "cherchez la femme". At first she dismisses that as completely irrelevant to this case - but is it?
(*) See "The Gambian Reprisal"
Caution: contains adult material.
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