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A-Bomb could not destroy Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel—but his recovery in the Avalon Center within the stylish beach resort of Sandytown ("House of the Balanced Vacation") might just. Coming out to the neighborhood bar offers Fat Andrew having a little bit of required diversion, permitting him a pint or two on the sly, plus an update on the planet of difficulty away from clinic—including the various ideas of the set of strong landowners for placing Sandytown more conspicuously on the chart. Nevertheless when an extremely macabre killing calls Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe onto the picture, Fat Andy understands that Avalon itself isn't any refuge from the secrets of the neighborhood elite—or from the demise wave that now, instantly, is increasing very quickly.