It is a cold November night, close to bonfire night. After one loud scream from an old lady, who was walking her dog late one night, taking a shortcut through the churchyard. Two young girls from a nearby pub come running to the women's aid. She discovers what appears to be a fallen tramp slumped up against a headstone in a pool of blood. Detectives Abbot and Peters are assigned to the murder case but just as it gets underway yet another murder is reported in the very same churchyard.

Could these two suspicious double murders be connected? Abbot and Peters begin to realise that these crimes committed are not all what they seem. With Abbots marriage on the rocks, can she balance her marriage as well as the investigation?