A macabre liturgy. A mysterious carving. An intriguing 200-year-old
mystery for music researcher Phineas Fox to solve.
The headmistress of Cresacre Abbey School has asked Phineas Fox to
establish whether an opera, to be performed as part of the school's
bicentenary celebrations, plagiarises an earlier work. During the course
of his investigations, Phin discovers that curious legends about the
school's past still linger, including the fate of a group of nuns who
disappeared without trace more than 200 years before. What exactly
happened to them? And who is the mysterious Ginevra, the shadowy figure
whose true identity has never been known ...?
As he delves further, Phin begins to unravel a series of interlocking
secrets, each one more puzzling - and sinister - than the last.