Long Time Waiting

Ridiculed and nicknamed "Agatha" by her colleagues for her Marplelike approach to a crime scene, novice detective Pippa Adams could not be having a worse start to her career at Penbury CID. Then teacher Carl Brock is discovered stabbed to death in a country lane on a hot June morning and his wife is found chained to a chair at their home. Pippa's superiors are getting nowhere with the case, stalled by false leads and growing ever more frustrated. As she takes it upon herself to uncover the truth, Pippa is led into a sinister world of drugs and cold revenge.