Just on the edge of historic Bath, England, when they’re knocking down a row of terrace houses to clear space for a modern grocery store, a strange discovery is made. When a hole is opened up in the garret space—a skeleton is revealed, sitting upright in a chair, dressed in the tatters of authentic 18 th century clothing with a men’s period wig sitting upon his skull. Peter Diamond is put on the case, but what appears to be an 18 th century murder might be a crime that was perpetrated quite a bit more recently. It is quite a tangled web that connects all the strands of this whodunnit, and by the end, the suspenseful ending is probably nothing the reader would have been able to predict. I particularly enjoyed this mystery since it referenced a lot of the historic landmarks of this wonderful city that I had a chance to visit last summer.