Scotland Yard Inspector Kenworthy sifts through lies and family passions while investigating the suicide of Detective-Sergeant Lawson's mother-in-law, whose suicide note cites Lawson as the reason for her loss of a will to live
John Buxton Hilton was a British crime writer. After his war service in the army he became an Inspector of schools, before retiring in 1970 to take up full-time writing.
He wrote the Superintendent Simon Kenworthy series and the Inspector Thomas Brunt series, as well as the Inspector Mosley series under the pseudonym John Greenwood. Hilton died in Norwich.