One February evening in the year 1968, Fr Wilfred, the parish priest of the Sacred Heart Catholic church in Droitwich, tumbles out of his confessional, stabbed

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A suicide before the First World War, a university career cut short by drink and debt, a missed business opportunity, family antagonisms, a threat to jobs on th

The discovery of the body of a petty criminal one winter's night in a quiet Yorkshire hamlet, sets in motion a series of events which stretches Inspector Walter