What do you do when you think your ex-lover has murdered his wife? Thats the question Ursula Gretton an archeologist working on the Saxon burial ground on Bamford Hill puts to Meredith Mitchell in the hope that Merediths friendship with Cotswold Chief Inspector Markby might cast some light on her dilemma. But Markby is dismissive of Ursulas suspicions concerning the disappearance of Dan Woollards wife
- until a body is found in the rubbish dump near the site Woollard & Ursula have been excavating. Woollards team of archeologists arent the only ones to disturb the peace of the windswept hill. Much to the fury of a taciturn pair of local landowners a band of New Age travellers has set up camp on the hill only to disappear the day the bodys discovered. Markby is faced with a tangle of conflicting clues suspects & possible witnesses
- amongst the latter Meredith Mitchell
- & when a second body is found it is clear the web is growing evern more complex & destructive.