The story is about the murder of three young women in a north Yorkshire town .the police are baffled as they were all murdered on the same sat night and as their investigation stalls three people close to the girls set out to get retribution a major in the SAS a nursing sister and a successful chemist the hunt races from north Yorkshire to America ,southern Ireland and Libya, but are the men dealt retribution ,who are murderers ,the right ones !!! Its not until the end that we learn the astonishing truth .