Sixpence for a Slaughter

October 1930. Gunshots ring out in the auditorium of a small-town cinema and when the doors are opened, a sickening crime scene greets the eyes of the horror-struck staff. The gunman has fled, leaving behind him a host of dead and dying cinemagoers and many unanswered questions. Who was the killer? What was his motive for the shooting? And just who were his intended victims?

Detective Inspector Matthew Stannard is on leave when the police are summoned, but this murder case is so big, the det...