Alice Draper was everyone''s sweetheart. She was fun-loving and
pretty and the wasn''t fussy about her lovers: they included middle-
aged businessmen and teenage tearaways.

Years after she died, her murderer is still unpunished. Six of her
lovers still have lives blighted by unspoken suspicion.

Exiled to seaside Eddathorpe in November, Detective Inspector
Robert Graham expects to have lots of time to brood about his
failed marriage and his formerly promising career. Instead, he
finds himself drawn into the Draper case, and unwittingly taking
the lid off a suprising variety of old scandals. Some of which involve
senior policemen...