故事描述一个警长一方面维护家庭的稳定另一方面竭力维系两个社区的和平他出生并长大的小镇和附近的拉马波山印第安部落爆发激烈冲突如果他不出手干预事情将进一步恶化一起可怕的悲剧让事情变得更加复杂警长的妻子也卷入了掩盖真相的丑闻迫使警长与拉马波印第安部落中一名危险的成员缔结不光彩的秘密协议很显然这件事不会轻易解决它只可能带来更大的麻烦
When two bodies are discovered by the side of a fishing stream, Barnaby and Troy have yet more murders to solve Isobel Hewitt had a zest for life that some can only hope for She loves to drive her red Jaguar at top speed and generally enjoyed the finer things in life Although loved by many, there were those who weren#39t quite so charmed by her Margaret Seagrove was convinced that she was the member of the local fishing club using weighted lures in the local stream Her nephew and his wife, with whom she resided, saw her as a burden now that she had spent most of her accumulated capital The second victim is the local doctor, Duncan Goff, a wellknown philanderer who had affairs with many of the local ladies The police must first determine if both were intended victims or if one was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time
