Lauren Canning hair stylist sitting in Emma's Café in Ross on Wye is curious about a redhead who is nervously looking out down the street. Lauren is fine tuned in the art of detecting moods after her experiences with the Special Police Unit in Hereford. Suddenly the redhead leaves. Within seconds there are police sirens all over town and Chief Inspector Worcester is looking in the window of the Café at Lauren.The Chief Inspector is chasing a blackmailer. The victim Lady Jane Adare is a relative of the Chief Constable. She suspects one of her lovers. Worcester includes in his list of suspects her City banker husband Josh who Lady Jane knows is having several affairs himself.The investigation draws in a number of City bankers who are embroiled in their own corporate battles. Then one of them is murdered. Lauren is involved because she is dating one of the suspects.