The second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective Chief Inspector Wexford Some cases are impossible to bury It's impossible to forget the violent bludgeoning to death of an elderly lady in her home Even more so when it's your first murder case Wexford believed he'd solved Mrs Primero's murder fifteen years ago It was no real mystery Everyone knew Painter her odd-job man had done it There had never been any doubt in anyone's mind Until now Henry Archery's son is engaged to Painter's daughter Only Archery can't let the past remain buried He wants to prove Wexford wrong & in probing into the lives of the witnesses questioned all those years ago he stirs up more than old ghosts