Plot

Some past memories and feelings are stirred up when Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman is reunited with an old flame, DCI James Larson.

Sandra's old flame, Inspector James Larsen, asks the team to reopen the case of Mal Baxter, a supposedly respectable antique dealer apparently killed in a robbery. However James believes Baxter was an informant and a fence, killed by someone he had crossed. Whilst his family and ex-partner Tony Morgan refute such claims, other dealers are less generous in their opinions and keep bringing the team back to a job lot Baxter bought containing a valuable gold statue, which could have been the murder weapon. At an illegal night time auction, or Nazareth, where the statue is the principal lot, the team start to uncover the truth.—don @ minifie-1

Brenda is asked by a former lover, DCI James Larsen, to investigate the murder of antiques dealer Mal Baxter who in 1995 was found in his shop with his head bashed in. Baxter had worked as a fence in the 1970s and 1980s and was also a confidential informant for the police art and antiques squad. He was responsible for the conviction of Lionel Scott "The Burglar from Belgravia" who died in prison 6 months before the Baxter killing. Perhaps someone had strong enough feelings to seek revenge. The murky world of stolen antiques is difficult to wade into, all the more so when Sandra learns that Larsen is under police observation. When they learn that a rare statue stolen in 1987 has resurfaced and is to go up for sale at a secret auction, they think they may have found the murder weapon. But just who will be the buyer.—garykmcd