Grief Encounters

DI Charlie Priest is in for a surprise at the monthly superintendents' meeting. DCS Colin Swainby stands to make a personal statement - he is to resign quietly and without fuss because certain allegations have been made against him involving a mysterious beautiful woman. When an attractive woman is snapped in a passionate clinch with MP Edward Gross on the roomy backseat of his Rover he too opts for a quiet exit but his has a far more permanent outcome. Charlie knows there must be a connection between the two - but he has to go to great lengths to prove it.