A country house weekend in rural Cornwall ends in murder and mayhem
for crime-writer sleuth Donald Langham and his wife Maria.
"It's time to let bygones be bygones. Water under the bridge, right?
What happened ... happened a long time ago."
When Langham's literary agent receives a cryptic letter inviting him to
spend the weekend at the grand Cornish home of successful novelist
Denbigh Connaught, Charles Elder seems reluctant to attend. What really
happened between Elder and Connaught during the summer of 1917, nearly
forty years before - and why has it had such a devastating effect on
Charles?
Accompanying his agent to Connaught House, Langham and his wife Maria
discover that Charles is not the only one to have received a letter. But
why has Denbigh Connaught gathered together a group of people who each
bear him a grudge?
When a body is discovered in Connaught's study, the ensuing
investigation uncovers dark secrets that haunt the past of each and
every guest - including Charles Elder himself ...