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?