Published in 1995
From the Gollancz dust jacket:
The recent TV showings of six of Chief Superintendent Wycliffe's most baffling cases attracted audiences of more than ten million a week, and created a huge new audience hungry for more. Now Wycliffe returns with another intriguing mystery. The Kemps, a Cornish Catholic family, have hung on to Kellycoryk, their ancestral home, for almost five hundred years, but it is beginning to look as though the present century will be their last. Roger, head of the shrinking clan, is desperate to stave off the inevitable. His second marriage, this time to Bridget, a prosperous businesswoman with her own ideas for the radical development of the estate, offers a possible way out. But it will be painful.
Then Bridget disappears, and inevitably the local tongues start to wag. Didn't Julia, Roger's first wife (herself moderately well-heeled), disappear overboard during a sailing trip? What is Roger up to? Wycliffe is supposed to be spending a week in a nearby cottage, recuperating from illness in the company of his wife, but there is too much that is intriguing about the Kemps for him to ignore.
As ever, W. J. Burley navigates Wycliffe through a tale with as many twists and turns as a Cornish lane to a thoroughly satisfying conclusion. His many fans, old and new, will be delighted.
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