Publisher's Synopsis
Essex, July 1983. A boy playing sees a fox tugging at something up on a railway embankment. He approaches it cautiously. Seconds later, a blast is heard from the farmhouse at which the boy is spending his summer holiday. DI Nick Lowry is called upon to investigate two deaths at Fox Farm, the home of eminent historian Christopher Cliff. The body in the farmhouse kitchen is Cliff himself. The fox-disturbed body on the property boundary is as yet unidentified. He must enlist colleagues Daniel Kenton and Jane Gabriel to answer two key questions: just who was at the house with Cliff that morning, and just what has since happened to Cliff's wife?
