Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson's first day in his new posting in south devon finds him investigating the brutal death of a young woman on a cliff path while his new colleagues are searching desperately for a missing ...Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson's first day in his new posting in south devon finds him investigating the brutal death of a young woman on a cliff path while his new colleagues are searching desperately for a missing child. Then Wesley's old friend from university, archaeologist neil watson, unearths the bodies of a strangled young woman and a new-born baby on the site of a seventeenth Century Merchant's house: though luckily for the overstretched police force the skeletons are centuries old.