Detective Inspector Hillary Greene is baffled by the murder of a fifteen-year-old boy found stabbed to death in his father's allotment shed. Living in a tiny hamlet and attending a local school, how had he come to encounter such a vicious killer? Who would want the lad dead, and why? Hillary's having a tough time at work: she's been passed over for promotion, her reliable constable Tommy Lynch is to be transferred out - and her new boss is the last man she wants to work for! But distractions like these won't stop her from finding a cold-blooded killer.