' I find the Law a bit confusing, Sergeant.'

Rosie! What a nickname for a policeman. Still, PC Penrose has got more problems than that when he returns to his home town on a compassionate posting and finds his life complicated by the pressures from his invalid mother, an old girlfriend and the responsibilities of settling in to a new police station with new colleagues - and is that police informer really going to further his career?

Rosie finds that a nodding acquaintance with the criminal classes can have its advantages when confronted by the dreaded future in-laws.