Larking was a typical English village and like the thousand other villages it resembled Larking had its secrets, as Inspector C.D. Sloan was to discover after the postman found the murdered body of Grace Jenkins in the road that led to her thatched cottage. But the real mystery...
Life, for Henrietta Jenkins, had always been a quiet affair -- a home with her widowed mother in Larking village, and her degree studies at the university. Then, just before her 21st birthday, her mother was run down on a village road, apparently the victim of a hit-and-run driver...