Publisher's Synopsis
Parish and Richards are given the case of a strangled woman left in a standing position wedged between a fence and a cycling sign on the bank of the River Lee in Rye Park. She also has a gravestone from the local church tied around her ankles. As they try to piece together her last hours, they discover she has a mysterious past, which leads them to Berlin. Xena and Stick have the case of a male skeleton found in Broxbourne Woods. Above the grave is a tree that has been engraved with a goodbye note to Jimmy Tanner. When forensics dig up the skeleton, they find a second one belonging to a sixteen year-old girl who is five-months pregnant and she has Memento Mori etched into her skull.
