An incredible event shatters the pastoral idyll of the lovely English village of Bishop Lacey. A team of archaeologists arrives to make the discovery of the century and to excavate the grave of Saint Tancred. Just that alone is enough to provide fuel for gossip for the next hundred years. But at the very spot where the saint’s tomb is supposed to be, they find a fairly fresh corpse of a local handsome organist… And for the investigation — as usual, the town’s eternal nightmare, Flavia de Luce, gets the job with her usual zeal: a curious busybody of twelve years old. To find the murderer, she’ll have to stick her nose not only into the secrets of quiet Bishop Lacey, but also into her own family closet full of skeletons — and only Saint Tancred knows what she’ll manage to dig up there.