- Fletcher's Cross is preparing for annual cricket match when the wife of local landowner and cricket captain is murdered after taking dog for a walk.
- Barnaby and Troy investigate the murder of Tara Cavendish, who is beaten to death with a cricket bat near a quarry on her husband's estate. She is the young wife of Robert Cavendish, a local landowner who is also captain of the Fletcher's Cross cricket team. He is disliked by many: his son, Stephen, who resents his father and is having an affair with a local barmaid; Charles Jennings, whom Cavendish recently dismissed from the cricket team; and a group of locals who resent that Cavendish has closed a public footpath that ran across his estate. The mystery deepens when it turns out Cavendish's housekeeper, Emily Beavis, died in a fall at the quarry site some 18 months previously. With that information, Barnaby is convinced that the two deaths are connected.—garykmcd
- Haughty, unpopular tycoon Robert Cavendish reports missing his much younger wife Tara, soon found pushed to make a fatal fall into the abandoned quarry shortly after persuading him to announce his retirement and sale of the grand estate to move to Florida, throwing son Stephen's business to the dogs and depriving his family of the free cottage. Troy just joined a cricket team and learns it's about to play Robert's, his coach being Cavendish's mortal enemy since he was sentenced for a fatal explosion in the quarry on greedy owner Robert's instructions. Steven has an affair with the barmaid who employs part-time, like the Cavendish estate, former kid prostitute Charlie Jennings, whom Robert meanly threw out of the cricket team, the knave being murdered while keeping score at the match. Barnaby remains focused on the quarry, where another woman died just like Tara years ago, with a present link, spelling a last murder attempt.—KGF Vissers
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