When Dr James Dalcott is shot dead in his cottage it looks very much
like an execution. And as DI Wesley Peterson begins piecing together the
victim's life, he finds that the well-liked country doctor has been
harbouring strange and dramatic family secrets.
Meanwhile, archaeologist Neil Watson has discovered a number of
skeletons in nearby Tailors Court that bear marks of dissection and
might be linked to tales of body snatching by a rogue physician in the
sixteenth century. But when Neil finds the bones of a child buried with
a 1930s coin, the investigation takes a sinister turn.
Who were the children evacuated to Tailors Court during World War II?
And where are they now? When a link is established between the wartime
evacuees and Dr Dalcott's death, Wesley is faced with his most
challenging case yet.