Detective Inspector Angel investigates the murder of millionaire film writer and producer, Peter Santana. His body has been found in a lonely farmhouse where he used to hide himself away to write. There, strangely, Angel finds a dead pig in a silk nightdress in Santana's bed. Further investigations become more mystifying when he realises that wherever he makes an inquiry a cuckoo clock hangs upon the wall. The South Yorkshire town of Bromersley has cuckoo clocks everywhere. The DI and his team race to solve the murder, prevent more mayhem and unravel the mystery of the cuckoo clock scam.