When a terrified bloodied man staggers from a boarded-up shop in broad daylight in the small Suffolk village of Evernam police are called to the scene. What they find inside the derelict building sends the community into shock: four bodies their throats savagely cut arranged in a bizarre formation with objects surrounding them. The survivor Mark Lingham insists that the deaths are his fault and is immediately arrested for murder. But police specialist Dr Cora Lael - a woman with the ability to sense emotional echoes from objects - hears a different story from the belongings placed around the bodies. . . Working with DS Rob Minshull and the South Suffolk CID team Cora is plunged into a deeply twisted case with more questions than answers. Can Cora unravel the secrets and lies to track down a brutal killer?

Part of the Cora Lael series.