If a dish does not turn out to be quite as it was at the remembered auberge in Normandy, or at the restaurant on the banks of the Loire, is this a matter for despair? Because it is different, as by force of circumstances it must be, it is not necessarily worse.

An intimate retelling of the 1963 murder of Officer Ian Campbell. The book's real power comes from the sordid web of minutiae relating to the trial and imprisonment of the killers juxtaposed against the crushing survivor's guilt experienced by Campbell's partner.