When a small-time crook offers information in return for police leniency, Hennessey and Yellich find themselves seeking the body of a man missing for ten years.But the mystery turns into murder - and naturally the apparently still grieving but bossy widow, nicknamed the long-haired colonel by her husband, is a suspect in his murder.And then a second and third body is discovered - along with a particularly nasty brand of political extremism involving just a few too many respected local businessmen...