In Merrily's fifth outing, a serial killer appears to be on the loose
and Merrily has her doubts about the detective in charge of the case
After half a century of decay, the village of Underhowle looked to be on
the brink of a new prosperity. Now, instead, it seems destined for
notoriety as the home of a psychotic serial killer. DI Francis Bliss, of
Hereford CID, is convinced he knows where the bodies are buried. But
Merrily Watkins, called in to conduct a controversial funeral, wonders
if Bliss isn't blinkered by personal ambition. And are the Underhowle
deaths really linked to perhaps the most sickening killings in British
criminal history?"