The dispatch / Judith Lees

The peaceful Adelaide Hills town of Ashcombe, still reeling from the murder of its local baker, is once again a major crime scene when the local butcher is found dead in his cool room. Having served their time in Vietnam, three men return to their lives and their wives in the hills' communities of Ashcombe and Wattle Creek. It soon becomes clear that the war has changed them and the snowballing effects on their families, leads to tragedy. Friends Bev, Anne and Carol had not expected their lives would be forever haunted by these changes in their husbands. How will they protect their families from unravelling? But as Detective Dean Mathews and his old partner Detective Graham Solomon narrow down the list of suspects has Dean become distracted by his grief, love and loyalty? Is everything what it seems in these idyllic hills' towns? First it was the bakers, then the butchers... who will be next?--Back cover.