Snares of Guilt

Rukhsana Mahmood is dead, ferociously battered about the head. But who would want to kill a kindly young woman whose job as a health visitor made her loved and respected? Detective Inspector John Handford is assigned the case. It's particularly sensitive as the Asian community is still reeling from a murder case the previous year: Handford got the right man but at the cost of enormous racial divisions. Now he's investigating another death that will rake up all the tension from the past... Rukhsana made a mixed marriage and her husband Amajit's family make no secret of their pleasure at her death. But is this a punishment killing? Or, was Rukhsana betraying more than one person?