Detective Inspector Joseph Rafferty has just left his wedding rehearsal when Sergeant Dafyd Llewellyn calls to say that a local man has come home to find his wife dead ? strangled ? on the kitchen floor. Adrienne Staveley is soon revealed to be a woman with many secrets. Was she killed by her husband? Did one of her lovers do the deed? Rafferty can't help but think it a wonder that someone hasn't tried to murder her before. But to complicate matters, and to Rafferty's horror, his fiancee Abra's fingerprints are found in the dead woman's house. What was she doing there? Either Abra's having an affair, or she's guilty of murder ? and Rafferty isn't sure which option he prefers...