In this fifth entry in her atmospheric series set in 1930s England, Nicola Upson again casts real-life mystery writer Josephine Tey as a sleuth. When Josephine inherits a Suffolk cottage, it comes full of secrets. Committed a century ago, the Red Barn murder still casts a shadow over the place, and no one in the village will admit to knowing Lucy Kyte, the other beneficiary of the will. Something dark has a hold on this community—is it just the ghosts, or is it something very much alive that Josephine should fear?