Journalist Philip Dryden is shocked to be informed by police that his father has been killed in a car accident - he drowned during the fenland floods of 1977 35 years before. At the same time two unrelated cases are demanding Dryden's professional attention: a body riddled with bullets found hanging in the middle of a lettuce field and a couple protesting that the local council has buried their baby daughter in a pauper's grave without permission. As Dryden pieces the clues together he realizes that the three cases may be related after all… (web)

Part of the The Philip Dryden Series series.