How the events of WW 2 affected various members of a lower middle class family in Liverpool, the emphasis being on life on the home front.

Barnaby and DS Ben Jones investigate the death of Simon Bright who is found dead inside an old World War II vintage Humber parked at an abandoned airfield. From all appearances, the death appears to be a suicide, but the pathologist determines that the man suffered a severe blow to the dead and may in fact have been unconscious when he died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Simon Bright's girlfriend, Laura Sharp, is nowhere to be found, but the death of the aging village Lothario and the attempted murder of another of her friends narrows the list of possible murderers somewhat. Barnaby is convinced that one of Laura's ex-lovers is responsible but given her rather active life, the question becomes which one?

一位新婚燕尔的年轻女子突然被人杀害了。究竟谁是凶手？是她的丈夫，还是她昔日的情人、仇人抑或情敌？一对喜欢侦探的青年决心将此事查个水落石出。他们私访知情者，调查当事人，几经曲折，数历危难，克服了有人故意设置的层层障碍，躲过了杀人者的冷枪暗箭，终于使事实真相大白与天下……

Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and politics, and comes to terms with his sexuality.

40 years ago, the town conjured up a demon (Century) with disastrous results. Now they are about to conjure the demon again and are making the same mistakes all over again (some people never learn). Teenage Tess Hunter learns the truth and tries to stop a second disaster.