The riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history.

Buried under the flagstones of a Camden house are the remains of Cora Crippen, former music-hall singer and wife of Dr. Hawley Crippen. No one would have thought the quiet, unassuming Dr. Crippen capable of murder, yet the doctor and his mistress have disappeared from London, and now a full-scale hunt for them has begun.