A death in a secretive family, a violent gang, and no witnesses leaves Littlejohn head to head with a formidable matriarch. When the police are called to a fire in the isolated farm of Great Lands, they discover the dead body of Harry Quill next to his unconscious wife. It appears Mrs. Quill burned stacks of hay to raise the alarm, but she dies in hospital before she can give a statement. Chief Superintendent Littlejohn and Inspector Cromwell are...