Still reeling from the Great War, the village of Wenfield is stunned when a young nurse is found stabbed to death. After two more women are murdered in identical circumstances, Inspector Albert Lincoln is sent up from London, a man not only wounded in war but damaged in peace by the death of his young son. In this first novel in a trilogy by the author of the Wesley Peterson mysteries, a ghostly soldier is spotted near the crime scenes, and now the villagers fear that the killer may be unstoppable.