Synopsis
Housewife Susan Goodman is poisoned to death whilst in the course of doing her weekly shopping. Initially suspected as a terrorist attack, Dalziel and Pascoe soon discover that for some bizarre reason, someone had motive to kill this innocent woman. And events take an even more extraordinary turn when a large sum of money which her husband Paul lost in a pension scam setup by the Albion bank is left on his doorstep by an unknown caller. Shortly after, a package arrives on the doorstep of another local housewife, and minutes later, she too is dead. Linking the events to the time that Paul and Susan spent at holiday resort Arcadia, and its owner, Brian Fairmile, Dalziel decides to discover why both women withdrew £20,000 from their bank accounts shortly before their stay, and why the money appears to have vanished. And then, to make matters worse, a third woman is murdered.