It seems an unlikely coincidence - two women hung from the same tree five centuries apart. Wesley is forced to consider that the killer also knows the tree's history. Has Pauline been executed rather than murdered and, if so, for what crime?
When the body of Pauline Brent is found hanging from a yew tree in a local graveyard, DS Wesley Peterson immediately suspects foul play. Then history provides him with a clue. Wesley's archaeologist friend, Neil Watson, has excavated a corpse at his nearby dig - a young woman...