Plot Summary:With Annie due for maternity leave icily efficient inspector Helen Morton joins Banks' team to investigate the murder of Jennifer Lewis,shot dead in her car,where Banks' address is also discovered on a scrap of paper. Banks himself disappears following an answer phone message for help from his wide boy brother Roy,but Roy is missing from home and neither Corinne,his girl-friend,or his father Arthur know of his whereabouts. His business partner Gareth Lambert tells Banks that Roy was having an affair with Jennifer and CCTV from the garage where she bought petrol an hour before her murder shows Jennifer with Roy. Whilst Helen Morton is questioning Banks the news comes in that Roy has been shot dead with the same gun that killed Jennifer Lewis.