Vile things are happening in the village of Medmelton: an unsolved villainous murder committed a year ago, and now a series of strange and very disturbing events that are connected with the Tree of Lazarus growing in the churchyard. To get to the bottom of the truth, Maltravers has to remove many layers of lies, but the revealed secret carries the threat of creepy and terrible consequences. The novel “The Tree of Lazarus” is a true discovery of the modern British detective story.