In the spring of 1942, with the war in Europe raging, a gruesome murder shocks the rural community of Marbury, where a once-grand estate called Elton House has been transformed into a hospital for "shell-shocked" soldiers sent back from the front lines. When Detective Chief Inspector Lamb arrives to solve the case, he quickly learns the victim, Elton House's gardener Joseph Lee, had plenty of enemies in Marbury--and so Lamb and his team have plenty of suspects. Along with his team of investigators, Lamb begins to untangle the threads of rivalry and deceit which lie beneath the surface of the seemingly-peaceful countryside village. As Lamb pieces together the connections between the crimes of the present and those of the past, he must dive into the darkest, most secret corners of Elton House to discover ho is committing murder and why.
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