Winchester, Armistice Day, 1919. Memories of the Great War still red raw. College Nurse, Philippa Lambert, guarding a dangerous secret. Clergyman, Canon Creswell Strange, a former military police officer, haunted by his past failings. A woman's mutilated body found in a flooded trench by the Cathedral. With the City police overwhelmed, Philippa and Creswell take on the murder investigation. Can they find the killer before becoming victims themselves?