It's mid-August in Chipping Bonhunt. Many of the local children are attending Summer Bible Club and at Bonhunt Academy students are anxiously awaiting their A-level results.It's a busy time for Inspector Wendy Pepper. An arson attack on the Friends' Meeting House is followed by a hit and run in the Market Place. Is it an accident or deliberate? When the victim of a gruesome murder is discovered she realises that this could be part of something much more sinister. Beneath the surface of this pleasant North Essex Market Town a deeply disturbed individual is planning retribution on a scale that nobody could possibly foresee.