When old Eleanor Bridges dies on her birthday at The Laurels nursing home no-one except her niece Fran Castle suspects anything. But when the will goes missing and Fran's newly discovered relatives appear to be doing everything in their power to obstruct investigations she enlists the help of her friend Libby Sarjeant. Together they uncover sinister happenings in the past - including greed and elements of witchcraft - that provide a host of motives for murder. But it isn't until a second body is discovered that the killer is unmasked.

Part of the Libby Sarjeant series.