Journalist Philip Dryden is shocked to be informed by police that his
father has been killed in a car accident - he drowned during the fenland
floods of 1977, 35 years before. At the same time, two unrelated cases
are demanding Dryden's professional attention: a body riddled with
bullets found hanging in the middle of a lettuce field, and a couple
protesting that the local council has buried their baby daughter in a
pauper's grave without permission. As Dryden pieces the clues together,
he realizes that the three cases may be related after all . . .