The Priest Hole (Fane and Blackwood, #3)

A celebrated surgeon is found dead in the priest hole of a Tudor manor.

The man arrested for the murder is the only person who can save Roderick Fane's life.

Fane has travelled to Warwickshire for a consultation he has put off for a decade. The surgeon who agreed to see him is now in a police cell. The only other surgeon who could have performed the operation is the corpse.

Nell Blackwood must unpick a household of old loyalties and careful silences, while the detective she relies on needs a particular answer for the first time in his career. The question is no longer whether she can solve the case. It's whether she can trust him while she does it.