When workmen converting former girls' boarding school Chadleigh Hall into a luxury hotel discover a skeleton in a sealed room DI Wesley Peterson & his boss Gerry Heffernan are called in to investigate But within minutes they have a second suspicious death on their hands a team of marine archaeologists working on a nearby shipwreck have dragged a woman's body from the sea & it becomes clear that her death was no accident The dead woman's husband may be linked with a brutal robbery of computer equipment but Wesley soon discovers that the victim had secrets of her own As he investigates Chadleigh Hall's past & the woman's violent death both trails lead in surprising directions & matters are further complicated when a man wanted for a murder in London appears on the scene a man who may know more about Wesley's cases than he admits