Robert is working in Oxford and sending money home whilst Ruby Pratt has returned from Pontefract after splitting with her gentleman friend. Gabriel Cochrane, whose wife has died and whose foundry has been repossessed by the bank, comes to Candleford, penniless, and Dorcas employs him in her forge where the work interests Sydney. After Edmund has collected money from Robert at the post office, he arrives home saying he has been robbed. The whole village rallies round Emma.
A diverse group of tourists on an organized trip to Lisbon find themselves investigating a murder after one of them is killed on the first morning. Set out to find the killer among the group as they visit beautiful Lisbon sites.
