Hangman's Lane

'There is no better chronicler...of the tough doings of provincial police forces...gripping.' - STANDARD. It seems brutally unjust that it should be Constable Wardle who finds his wife's murdered body down Hangman's Lane - but then the whole case is a mess, and it is thirteen weeks later when Chief Inspector Lyle arrives to reopen the inquiry. What Lyle finds is a close community eager to discuss the late Tabitha Wardle's extra-marital activities, but struck dumb at the suggestion that one of them could kill. Lyle is forced to rely on his understanding of human nature to prove them wrong.