The Merchant's House

DS Wesley Peterson newly arrived in the West Country town of Tradmouth has his hands full when a child goes missing and a young woman is brutally murdered on a lonely cliff path. Then his old friend archaeologist Neil Watson unearths the skeletons of a strangled woman and a newborn baby in the cellar of an ancient merchant's house nearby. As the investigation continues Wesley begins to suspect that these deaths centuries apart may be linked by age-old motives of jealousy a sexual obsession and desperate longing. And the pressure is on if he is going to prevent a further tragedy?