Murder at Boundary Cottage. The townspeople would have said Larking, with the stone rectory and thatched farmhouses, was typical of a thousand other English villages. As it happened, this was true. And everyone in Larking thought they knew everything about everyone else. In that they found they were mistaken...especially the morning the postman found Grace Jenkins murdered. She ahd lived quietly at Boundary Cottage for twenty-one years. But there...

Detective Chief Inspector C.D. Sloan is dragged away from his cases to oversee the transfer of an ancient Egyptian mummy and case, but the simple task is soon complicated when the body of a young woman is found inside the case.

When a young girl's murder is linked to the recent death of a woman named Josephine Short, DCI Sloan and Constable Crosby research dubious elements of Short's life in the hopes of identifying the child's killer.