Haworth 1847 - Anne and Emily Brontë have had their books accepted for publication while Charlotte's has been rejected everywhere creating a strained atmosphere at the parsonage. At the same time a shocking court case has recently concluded acquitting a workhouse master of murdering his wife by poison. Everyone thinks this famously odious and abusive man is guilty. However he insists he is many bad things but not a murderer. When an attempt is made on his life he believes it to be the same person who killed his wife and applies to the detecting sisters for their help. Despite reservations they decide that perhaps as before it is only they who can get to the truth and prove him innocent - or guilty - without a shadow of doubt.

Part of the Bronte Sisters Mystery series.