Evil is stalking the streets of Bruncliffe ... From stolen washing to inheritance investigations, Bruncliffe's Dales Detective Agency is being inundated with cases. But with Samson O'Brien still in London helping the Met Police clear his name, and the newly appointed member of the investigation's team, Ida Chapstick, distracted by her brother George's insistence that their farm is haunted, Deliliah Metcalfe is struggling to meet the mounting demands for the agency's service. So when the mother of a local estate agent arrives at the office insisting her son is missing, Delilah is relieved to have Samson return to help. Little do the detective due know that several of their cases are about to collide when identifying the whereabouts of the missing man becomes something far more sinister. Something that will finally expose the network of evil that has been infiltration the Dales town over the past decade, and in doing so place Delilah in the utmost danger.