Scales of Justice

About this book

A country Eden blooms with murder Swevenings village is pretty as a picture but its secrets are ugly; and its gentry dread the publication of Sir Harold Lacklanders memoirs. When one of them is murdered Inspector Roderick Alleyns investigation takes him through petty vendettas an ex-commanders blend of whiskey and archery and cocktails on the lawn with a femme fatale. But the motive hes angling for lies even deeper than the trout stream beneath the rustic bridge...