Publisher's Synopsis
A young male body is washed from a river: forensic examination reveals he has been abused and murdered. The accidental discovery that a convicted paedophile lives in the nearby village of Rendcomb leads the police to take a close interest, and when five decaying bodies are found down a well in his garden, he is arrested. Helena Flemming is called in as his solicitor, but she is already busy on another case and asks Dr John Eisenmenger to stand in for her. Once in Rendcomb he discovers there is a much wider problem, more grotesque than he could have imagined. Helena, meanwhile, is also confronting some unexpected dangers of her own.
