Jessica Fletcher travels to Ireland to visit her friend, the recently widowed Fiona Griffith. She no sooner arrives than one of the locals, William Mahaffy, suggests that Fiona's husband Robert was murdered but everyone else dismisses any such suggestion. The Griffith family woolens mills is now run by Fiona's youngest son Sean but a cousin, Ambrose Griffith and his wife Emily have arrived and it seems he at least is intent on taking it over. When Fiona's eldest son Patrick returns after a 10 year absence, the family is reunited. Patrick and his father had fought regularly and he has only now returned after his father's death. When Ambrose is found in the church belfry, strangled to death, Patrick is arrested but Jessica is certain she can prove he was innocent. There are many family secrets including the fact that Ambrose was going to divorce Emily. A missing button, however, leads to the killer.
—garykmcd