Just Recompense: Book Two of Basil Ackroyd’s France

Basil Ackroyd, the scheming English mayor of a small French town in the midi, thinks his life has returned to normal after a disastrous brush with criminal plotting by corrupt administrators and police. But his brief moment of calm is shattered by the appearance of an someone from his murky past who completely out of character offers to repay a long standing debt. The chance to profit from this improbable offer is too tempting to Basil and he becomes embroiled in the inevitable consequences of his avarice.