Will Scales was an army officer, followed by the police, then an academic till he took up writing full time. He is married with four children and lives in the West Country.
This story opens with a murder: a prominent criminologist at a provincial university is found dead, with his head beaten in. Neither his academic colleagues nor his students liked the victim it seems, and the police investigating the crime are confronted at the outset with too many motives and too m...
