Set in the nineteen sixties, this is the fifteenth in the series that sees DCI Victor Moyes and his second in command DS Victoria Morgan trying to discover the identity of a skeleton dug up on a building site. Unbeknown to them, this discovery triggers a series of murders and we follow them as they try to find the killer.
Victor’s life is further complicated by the arrival of the Assistant Chief Constable’s niece who has been seconded to him for six months as part of her training, which from his point of view is a living nightmare.