The summer of 1959 finds the wedding season in full swing inthe Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. Among the ReverendWill Davenport's many brides-to-be is Adele Fitzgerald, wholives on the once-splendid, but now declining FitzgeraldEstate with her green-fingered spinster sister Maude. The bodyof a dead man is found in the grounds and is quickly identifiedas the sisters' errant brother Lord Edmund Fitzgerald, who hasbeen living an itinerant life travelling the world since thewar. Will and DI Geordie Keating find themselves at odds withGeordie's new boss DCI Elliot Wallace and DC Larry Peters inviewing the death as a murder. As Will and Geordie investigatethe Fitzgerald family history, they find themselves lookinginto Edmund's own romantic past.
