The Fawcett Green bell-ringers don\'t bat an eyelid when Simone Hollingsworth fails to turn up to practice. They merely assume that bell-ringing has become the latest in a long list of her abandoned hobbies.
When then the increasinlgy strange behaviour of Simone\'s husband, Alan, begins to raise neighbourly suspicions about her whereabouts. And when the discovery of a body draws Detective Chief Inspectors Barnaby to the village, it become clear that unravelling the couple\'s tangled lives will have painful repercussions for the whole village.