Ingenious and compelling, this is Quintin Jardine's most ambitious novel yet and an extraordinary achievement, following GRIEVOUS ANGEL. After a tip-off, a man's body is exhumed from a shallow grave in Edinburgh. Murder surely, yet he died from natural causes, so, case closed? Indeed, was there ever a case? But Chief Constable Skinner and his people keep on digging. Who was the man, why was he buried so reverentially, and by whom?