1724 Nothing stirs aboard"The Trinity"as it makes port on England's south coast. Its captain is dead, its crew slaughtered on the long journey. 1994 A boy is discovered, chained in the basement of a farmhouse, by police officers following an anonymous phone call. Four more bodies are buried in the yard. 2014 The body of a convicted child killer is found on an allotment, miles from the prison cell he was locked up in just thirty minutes earlier. Nick McRae hates mysteries, and Warhampton is full of them. They're part of the reason he stays."