Out of work journalist and living in a home that includes his overbearing mother-in-law, Jason Brazel’s life hasn’t turned out like he expected. It’s all rather dull (and more than a little tedious) until it comes to their attention there’s a killer on the loose in the area.

When one of mother-in-law Amita’s bingo friends is found dead outside her crumbling Lake District home, she immediately feels there’s more to the story. The police don’t put much stock in her opinions, so she’ll have to rally her bingo friends to get to the bottom of it.