In the quiet North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield a policeman's lot is often a very happy one. So found PC Nicholas Rhea whose colourful and warm-hearted stories of his countryside beat in the 1960s are the inspiration behind the enormously popular television drama, 'Heartbeat'.
Well settled and well known in Aidensfield, PC Nick still finds that the residents can surprise him. There's the time the school mistress decides to involve the whole village in beating the parish boundaries; and the day a sheep manages to stop Emily Jane Taylor swearing at the top of her voice in the graveyard; or when the vicar's wife takes it into her head to bring a clutch of Borstal boys to the village for rehabilitation.
One thing he can be sure of is that life will never be quiet - particularly when Claude Jeremiah Greengrass is on the loose and still up to his incorrigible tricks . . .
