The fifth novel in Kate Ellis's wonderfully addictive Wesley Peterson series

An excavation at the lost gardens of Earlsacre Hall is halted when a skeleton is discovered beneath a 300-year-old stone plinth . . . the remains of a woman who was buried alive. But even when more skeletons turn up in the walled garden, DS Wesley Peterson has little time for archaeology. He has a far more recent murder case on his hands. A man has been stabbed to death at a popular holiday park and the only clue to his identity is a newspaper cutting about the restoration about Earlsacre Hall gardens.

Could local solicitor Brian Willerby have the answer? He is eager to talk to Wesley but before he can reveal his secret he is killed during a 'friendly' cricket match, apparently hit several times by a flying cricket ball.

What is it about Earlsacre Hall that leads people to murder? And what is the sinister secret of the bone garden? For someone close to Wesley, time is running out . . .