Nicky comes home and finds a dead M.P. on his doorstep. The M.P's widow hires him to find the killer. The trail leads to Switzerland.

In Brown bread in Wengen Nicky Burkett is finally out of jail. However, his problems are only just beginning, particularly when a dead Member of Parliament is found in the communal stairway outside his flat. This is the story of a race against time, which ends in a violent denouement on the posh slopes of Wengen.