1941, the second world war rages
and in England the conscription act has been expanded to include women.
Detective Thomas Lamb is using his daughter, Vera, as his driver mainly because
he’s badly sprained his ankle and partly to keep her out of the conscription
dragnet.
They are on their way to the tiny
Hampshire village of Winstead where a woman has been found, shot to death, in
the graveyard. Finding out that the woman Ruth Asquith was a former conscientious
objector Lamb and his team turn their attention to the work camp where she and
other conscripts are building a prisoner-of-war camp.
The villagers are proving to be suspicious too, the charismatic vicar seems to have lost his gun, local busybody
Flora Wheatley is going around strangling baby sparrows and young Lily watches
the nocturnal comings and goings of the villagers whilst her mother works the
night shift at a factory in Southampton. Yes, Winstead is a village full of
secrets, some long buried, some about to be unearthed.
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