When private detective Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a hedge, it looks like she is about to become involved in a particularly gruesome murder. Looks can be deceiving, as Agatha discovers when she is employed to investigate a case of industrial espionage at a factory where nothing is quite what it seems. As a possible solution to the factory murder unfolds, her own life is thrown into deadly peril. Will Agatha get her man at last? Or will the killer get her first?