A respectable town near Oxford was shocked by the brutal murder of a local nurse, Rachel, who was stabbed to death in her own house ...And her sister Nora, who arrived from London, begins to feel that the police are working carelessly - as if they are not particularly eager to find a criminal.Desperate to make sense of the law and guided by the only clue - Rachel's phrase that something strange is happening in the town - Nora decides to conduct her own investigation.And in her frantic the thirst to find the culprit does not even suspect how many skeletons she has to pull out of other people's cabinets and how many dangerous secrets to reveal ....