Bruncliffe es una apacible localidad de la región de los Dales, en la campiña inglesa. El expolicía Samson O?Brien regresa allí para montar la Agencia de Detectives de los Dales (ADD), cuya oficina esta junto a la agencia de citas Alianzas Duraderas en los Dales (ADD), de Delilah Metcalfe. Cuando aparecen en la zona tres cadaveres con un elemento en comun, pues todos eran clientes de ADD (la agencia de citas, no la de detectives), Samson y Delilah aparcan sus diferencias para investigar el caso y, entre pinta y pinta de cerveza, se convierten en los mejores detectives de Yorkshire. Naturaleza salvaje, ovejas lanudas y peleas de pub se dan cita en esta novela ambientada en el corazon de la Inglaterra rural.
A woman in tears in the Dales Detective Agency is never the best way to start the week. But when that woman is the wife of Bernard Taylor, town mayor and eminent businessman, there is even more cause for alarm. So when Nancy Taylor asks the detectives to investigate whether her husband is having an affair, Samson OBrien and Delilah Metcalfe know they will have to tread carefully.The case, however, proves to be more complex than even they had imagined. While Delilah is undercover at a local shoot to better keep tabs on the errant husband, she is on the scene for a fatal incident that sends the town into turmoil. Soon the detective duo are embroiled in a far more serious investigation than mere infidelity as they discover that deceit is rife in Bruncliffe. And it may well prove deadly...
"Samson et Delilah ont traversé bien des tempêtes. Aujourd'hui, tandis que leur mariage se profile à l'horizon, le calme semble être enfin revenu. Mais rien n'est jamais aussi simple à Bruncliffe, et
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