- When a wealthy landowner's body goes missing on the night of his death, a sinister web of secrets and lies is exposed in the village of Little Malton.
- Gregory Lancaster dies of pneumonia but when the undertakers arrive the body has vanished, even though his family were in the room below and soon afterwards the body of Lydia Dryfield, the family's former nanny, is dug up from its grave to disappear. Melissa Ackers, the vicar, is not popular with Mrs Lancaster and her daughter Rose, who suspect an affair with Rose's boy-friend Craig Cossley whilst millionaire Sonny Desai, childhood friend of Gregory's heir Felix wants to buy the house from him. New pathologist Kam Karimore presents evidence incriminating both Craig and Felix - Sonny's opportune appearance also puts him in the frame. When two, far from dead, people also disappear Barnaby must identify who claimed on two occasions. Habeas Corpus.—don @ minifie-1
- When undertaker Caleb Southwood in the village of Little Malton comes collect wealthy, long-ailing estate owner Gregory Lancaster's body just after Dr Isaac Vernon, Caleb's housemate, proclaimed him dead, it's missing without trace or trail. Fresh widow is shocked to hear that eldest son Felix, the main heir by tradition since feudal days, who returned from an Antarctic expedition just too late, intends to sell the debts-cripples estate, to a youth fried initially welcomed as guest: Indian heir and tycoon Sonny Desai, always considered a better catch for daughter Rose then her inconspicuous in-living eternal fiance, tree surgeon Craig Coffley, but involved in the family's dark secret loss of another son. DCI Barnaby and DS Nelson have ample opportunity to get used to working with new forensic pathologist Kam Karimore, as the theft of the recently buried corpse of the Lancaster family's former nanny suggests a macabre world of body-snatching, apparently involving cahoots Caleb and Isaac, who are literally caught with a corpse. Nothing is quite what it seems and by the time the detectives tie the knots, while everyone at the estate gets suspicious of each-other, a decapitated corpse is found in the tree surgeon's ropes and the killer is ready to complete a crazy revenge for another death, overseas years ago.—KGF Vissers
- When wealthy landowner Gregory Lancasters body goes missing on the night of his death, a sinister web of secrets and lies is exposed in the village of Little Malton. DCI Barnaby, DS Nelson and new Forensic Pathologist Kam Karimore are drawn into a macabre world of body-snatching as they seek to identify the villain.
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