Gabrielle Blunt

When a merchant ship wrecks on the coast of an island in the Outer Hebrides during the Second World War, the residents of the small community decide to liberate the wreck of its cargo: hundreds of cases of whiskey. When a nosy Home Guard officer begins getting suspicious, the residents go to great lengths to protect their find.

A husband cheats on his disabled wife--who has been paralyzed in a car accident--with her sister. When the sister is murdered he is accused of the crime, but it turns out that he may not be the killer after all.