Keith Wilder is news editor for a press agency in St Helens in Northern England. It is 1970 at the beginning of a decade of change.
It is against this background on a dark, dismal, night in January when he receives a mysterious phone call asking him to go to lonely Bluebell farm on the outskirts of town. He discovers the body of a farmer who appears to have blown his brains out with a shotgun.
The killing is the beginning of a series of...