When Juno Browne buys a wardrobe to stock her fledgling antique shop, she doesn’t expect to find a dead body inside it. And when the man she bought it from, rascally farmer Fred Crick, is found battered to death in his blazing cottage, the hunt for a double murderer is on. Despite the police struggling to find a connection between the two crimes, this time Juno is resolved to ignore her impulse to investigate. Until a stranger arrives who bears an uncanny resemblance to the dead man in the wardrobe.

Determined to discover how his brother died and impressed by Juno’s reputation in the local press as Ashburton’s amateur sleuth, Henry Gillow tries to drag her into his quest to solve the mystery, with disastrous results.