Dorothy and Alan are visiting Alan’s old colleague David, a former police chief in Cornwall, in the historic northern town of Durham when they are asked to look into the death of a local doctor. The man had been living in a luxurious home for wealthy dementia patients (although he had no dementia himself), where David’s courtesy aunt is accused of causing the man’s death. In their attempts to clear her name, Dorothy and Alan come across the death of a student by accidental drowning, the assault of another student, the disappearance of a somewhat shady man and, eventually, a very dangerous encounter for Dorothy…. The religiosity in this series is front and center here, especially as one of the characters is a divinity student, and the solution to the various crimes is rather slapdash, but Dorothy and Alan remain congenial characters and the setting is beautifully described. This is the 23rd (of 25) book in the series, and I will go ahead and finish the series having gotten this far, although I think one needn’t have read all the previous books before tackling this one; mildly recommended. ( )