Durhamchapel

August McKilligan is an abusive drunk whose main target is his wife Clovis. On one particular morning August comes home drunk and berates Clovis as he gets ready to go to work at the local schoolhouse. The fight escalates to where August beats and rapes Clovis. Traumatized by the event Clovis cleans herself up and puts on a brave face for her students. When Clovis arrives home the following morning August is dead, with no outward injuries. Clovis calls her brother Sergeant Harvey and the small village's only policeman for help. With only one other suspicious death int he past 40 years at Durhamchapel, Sergeant Harvey calls for help from the neighboring city police. Constable Ferguson is a young policeman tasked with the case, but quickly learns that everything is not what it seems in this small, quiet village. August was a bully, who terrorized the village for years holding everyone under his grip. The village finally had enough and devised a plan to get rid of August once and for all. Everything is going to plan until Vernon McKilligan comes looking for his brother with the help of the city police's Chief Inspector Bogghurst, a callous man who wants nothing more then to arrest Clovis for the murder of her husband. But with hundreds of witnesses, a hundred different motives, it will the greatest challenge C.I Bogghurst has ever come across. Arresting Clovis, or the whole village.