Dalziel & Pascoe

The discovery of a man's body in a deserted mine shaft throws a Yorkshire mining community into turmoil as it is forced to re-live some dark events from the past.

The dramatic appearance of a mysterious man at the funeral of a wealthy woman sets tongues wagging in a small Yorkshire village. As members of the grieving family squabble over her estate, they are horrified when the stranger claims to be her long-lost son

Dalziel becomes involved in a game of psychological one-up-manship, with a clever dangerous killer, who invents almost deliberately implausible alibis when his nearest and dearest begin to die around him.

While Dalziel and Detective Sergeant Wield investigate an Animal Rights raid on Wanwood Pharmaceuticals, Pascoe's mind is on the death of his grandmother, Ada.