When Chief Inspector Alan Banks isn't catching a criminal, he's off pursuinghis latest interest: Tudor history, bird's eggs, or much to his beleaguered family's dismay,his current passion, opera. After moving his family from London to Eastvale, an oldmarket town in Yorkshire, Banks finds trouble brewing beneath the surface of the lovelytown. A Peeping Tom is lurking around and teenage thugs are terrorizing elderly Eastvaleladies. When the rampage turns to murder, Banks knows he has his work cut out for him.