Count Your Victims

In shabby south Oxford, men clearing the debris of a burned-out garden room find something unusual among the ashes: a human ear. The two young women who seem to have been living in the garden room have disappeared. Who were they? What were they doing there? The new Superintendent of Thames Valley, a middle-aged lady with apple cheeks, looking more like grandmother in a children's story than an officer of the law, suspects organised crime. But the investigation is soon overtaken by other eve...