This is the first book of the Inspector Ramsay series, but you wouldn't know that from his performance here. He doesn't make much of an appearance and all the investigative work seems to be done by the school caretaker and his daughter. He doesn't make much of an impression at all especially as a police detective. There are lots of similarity to Andrea Frazer's The Facloner File series I recently read, but this is far better writing and far more enjoyable.

The headmaster of the Heppleburn village school is not a like man and when he is murdered there is a long list of suspects. But the police focus on one, his wife, and this annoys the school caretaker, an old friend of the wife and sets out, with his daughter, to prove her innocence.

An enjoyable read but at times it lacked focus on the here and now with a lot being said in hindsight.