"What she is certain of is that her son's name was blackened and he was driven to his death and all their lives were ruined for someone else's crime. She's sure of it."
"Which does not, of course, make it so."
Nevertheless, Detective Superintendent Cecilia Cavaliere does decide to look into the twenty-year old case, and soon finds that all is not as it should be. This, their fifth recorded adventure, will lead Cecilia, her husband Anglican priest Michael Aarons, various old friends and colleagues, some new ones, and the usual assortment of children, dogs, cats, and other creatures, on a quest that will take them as far afield as Spain and at one point put Cecilia's own life in deadly peril.