With its ancient oak and its grand manor house the sleepy village of Farnleigh Chase is steeped in history; an ideal place for murder.
The Farnleigh family built the village of their namesake from nothing thanks to a discovery by the ancestor William Farnleigh over a century ago, however three generations later and numerous less than savoury encounters the family seat is under threat. However, this threat is an unknown: a series of seemingly unrelated murders centred around the sleepy village and its apparently innocent inhabitants have the local constabulary bewildered. With no obvious connection and no sign of where the murderer may strike next the villagers of Farnleigh Chase are on tenterhooks, each as much of a suspect as another all with the potential to become the next victim.