A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy

For Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special. Every week she would
look forward to the one day she could call her own, and would plan to
visit people she wanted to see as a welcome respite from the routine
duties that being a vicar's wife entailed. But one Thursday in June was
to be more special than any other. It was the day that Dorothea Cassidy
was strangled. As the small town of Otterbridge prepares for its summer
carnival, Inspector Stephen Ramsay begins a painstaking reconstruction
of Dorothea's last hours. He soon discovers that she had taken on a
number of deserving cases—a sick and lonely old woman, a disturbed
adolescent, a compulsive gambler, a single mother with a violent
boyfriend and a child in care—and even her close family have their
secrets to hide. All these people are haunted, in one way or another, by
Dorothea's goodness. But which of them could have possibly wanted her
dead?