The body of a woman has been discovered in Castle Farthing Woods and it appears that although she had been dead for years nobody had ever reported her missing. DI Harry Falconer of the Market Darley police is perplexed - and not only in his working life. He has recently resumed his relationship with psychologist Dr Honey Dubois - but while visiting a local village in the course of his investigations unsettling memories of a former love are revived. Then the bodies start to come thick and fast...