Publisher's Synopsis
The Coffin Tree grew in London's Second City. The upper branches had been struck by lightning, which would have killed most trees - but not this one. No one owned the strange tree, but someone had their eye on it, and one day would have a use for it. After all, he had given the tree a curious name. Near it, a shrouded body had been burnt on what looks like a funeral pyre. Had the victim voluntarily climbed on to the fire? Or was it murder? In his efforts to solve the crimes casting a shadow over the Second City, Coffin is forced to question his own judgment, and to confront the untapped mysteries of another human heart.
