' You're looking at his inspiration. These are ones he wishes he'd done the ones he wishes he'd got to first...' After half a century of decay the village of Underhowle looked to be on the brink of a new prosperity. Now instead it seems destined for notoriety as the home of a psychotic serial killer. DI Francis Bliss of Hereford CID is convinced he knows where the bodies are buried. But Merrily Watkins called in to conduct a controversial funeral wonders if Bliss isn't blinkered by personal ambition. & are the Underhowle deaths really linked to perhaps the most sickening killings in British criminal history?