Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the brand new mystery in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series.

'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The Times

It is September and South Devon is returning to its usual calm after the summer tourists depart. Things are never too peaceful for DI Wesley Peterson and his team though, who receive a call about a mummified body that has been discovered in the wall of a house.

The body is identified as Dr Aleric Donnall, a professor researching mythical beasts, who was last seen over a decade ago. As Wesley tries to establish potential suspects for the murder, he asks his friend Dr Neil Watson to examine the ancient ruins in the grounds of Sycamore House. Neil's excavation uncovers the remains of a medieval chapel and a sacred well marked with strange carvings of creatures.

Wesley begins to investigate the whispers that a cult once resided in Sycamore House. Then, shockingly, a new murder occurs in a nearby village.

Could the two crimes be linked? And can Wesley establish the truth from the myth that surrounds this case, in order to catch a killer?