«With the logic of betrayed the Asquith women instigate revenge — murder dressed in its Sunday best.» Revenge fiction — set within the four seasons of 1947. The Asquith women have been mastered, yet they are controlling together what they have been mastered by — Sam Asquith, land-owner. Found. Dead. Sorrow turns to revenge when Stella Asquith — the vivacious widow — and her land-girl daughters, aided by their psychopathic farm-man, discover half-share of Sam's wealth has been bequeathed to a kept-in-the-dark illegitmate son. Bitter in enmity, the murderous foursome instigate farming accidents which back-fire with dangerous risks and results. Killing Sam's son proves to be a deadly game of roulette.
