Synopsis: |
Nathan Ossler was a blackmailer: he made people tremble, pay up and then want to die. So when he is found slumped in an armchair with the front of his head missing, nobody in the Yorkshire village of Strensall is shocked. On the contrary, people were queuing up to shoot dead the universally unpopular foul-mouthed, foul-tempered Ossler. Who, though, actually pulled the trigger of the.22 handgun? Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey and his loyal sidekick Detective Sergeant Yellich have too many suspects to choose from. Could it have been the head teacher drawing his salary on false pretences? Or the bigamist who married wife number two for money without saying goodbye to wife number one? Or a young woman whose driving force is greed and who will stop at nothing to satisfy it? |