Some fifty years ago, Priors Bramley was emptied of its residents for a Cold War experiment that went wrong. Since then, the cordoned-off town has been known at The Poisoned Village. But locals don't know the half of it. Tracing the contagion leads to the long-abandoned Cadence Manor, once home to generations of secretive bankers and their elegant wives. What murderous madness afflicted them? And what is the source of the eerie music that, even now, can be heard in the crumbling village?