The Bailiff's Wife

When Sarah Kidd arrives in Chalfont St. James, the townspeople make it clear that they would rather let a crime go unpunished than listen to an outsider. But Sarah is sure that it is her husband whose body was discovered near the inn and buried in a pauper's grave, and she has an opinion about who is to blame. She finds allies in the community who are themselves outsiders: Quaker Frances Bright and Church of England priest Arthur Brunskill. Yet it takes the actions of a young girl, Frances' daughter Jane, to ensure that justice, of a kind, is done.