There lies your love Malorie Blackman and the repercussions of history

and the repercussions of history and faith

now known as the Rot

Against her own judgement and the advice of Benton Wesley and her niece

The author's depiction of the murderer's unravelling mind

and black jar he discovers while digging a badgers sett sparks the interest of the local vicar

There lies your love Malorie Blackman and the repercussions of historyIn Deerham Hills a girl is missing and another suspected of harming her. An older woman is found dead: murder or suicide? Then there are the terrifying letters sent to Tom Gilroy, another suicide case, and a Peeping Tom. Charmian Daniels, Jennie Melville's policewoman heroine, has all this to cope with: and she meets again the London policeman Robert Ascham, and finds him even more attractive and disturbing than before.