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      <text>D I Tom Reid and his pyschiatrist wife Helen, along with her two children, travel to the Dordogne to visit her parents. They are recently married.</text>
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      <text>Tom is on leave from the Met for stress, after a really serious case involving a child abductor when he almost got killed - he is a bit shell shocked  - also not entirely adjusted to the role of being a step father. This is going to be a strain, especially as he needs his work to keep him happy.</text>
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      <text>Fortunately the idyllic village where Helen's Welsh father and French mother live is a hot bed of secrets, scandals and tensions.  Within the first three days Toby, Helen's eight year old, finds a dead body in an old barn...</text>
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      <text>Though the case is strictly off limits, Tom can't help getting involved and soon begins to wonder if the French investigating magistrate isn't beling deliberately stupid for some reason.</text>
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