The one thing Antony Maitland needed was a holiday in the lovely village of Burton Cecil. The last thing the barrister-sleuth needed was murder. Especially when the victim was an innocent young girl, gruesomely strangled! The police were ready to nab the boyfriend, while the villagers pointed ominously at a stranger in town. But Maitland remembered another murder in Burton Cecil seven years before and suspected a connection. Then a second girl was killed - and Maitland saw a deadly pattern emerge - one that would lead him to the least likely killer of all! (Publisher's description)
