There's nothing Ruth Galloway hates more than amateur archaeologists, but when a group of them stumble upon Bronze Age artifacts alongside a dead body, she is thrust into her 13th case, after The Lantern Men. Not long after, the same detectorists uncover a murder-suicide—a scientist and his wife found at their farmhouse, long thought to be haunted. The further DCI Nelson probes into both cases, the closer they circle to David Brown, the new lecturer Ruth has recently hired.