December, 1939 Having solved the case of the Suffolk Vampire, Inspector Betty Church and her colleagues at Sackwater Police Station have settled back down to business. Theres the elderly Mr Orchard who keeps wandering off in his pyjamas, little Sylvia Satins birthday party to attend and the scintillating case of the missing bookmark to solve. Peace and quiet are all well and good, but Betty soon finds herself longing for some cold-blooded murder When a bomb is dropped on a residential street, it seems the war has finally reached Sackwater. But Betty cannot stop the Hun, however hard she tries. So when a dead man is found on the beach, Betty concentrates on hunting an enemy much closer to home.