Haunted by their past the Skelf women are hoping for a quieter life. But running both a funeral directors’ and a private investigation business means trouble is never far away and when a car crashes into the open grave at a funeral that matriarch Dorothy is conducting she can’t help looking into the dead driver’s shadowy life. While Dorothy uncovers a dark truth at the heart of Edinburgh society her daughter Jenny and granddaughter Hannah have their own struggles. Jenny’s ex-husband Craig is making plans that could shatter the Skelf women’s lives and the increasingly obsessive Hannah has formed a friendship with an elderly professor that is fast turning deadly.

Part of the Skelfs series.