The cold, dark winter in the Cotswolds is finally coming to an end, so Ellie and Graham Kent celebrate with a belated honeymoon in Paris. But news from Little Beecham casts a shadow over their holiday: convicted murderer Corinna Matthews has been released from prison and turns up in the village, asking for Mrs. Kent. As Ellie soon discovers, it was Louise, Graham's late wife, that Corinna wanted to see, but she steps in to help and finds herself coping not only coping with villagers who still want "an eye for an eye," but also with baffling question questions about what happened on the night Corinna murdered her brother Pindar and why.