Things have become too much for DCI Jack Farley. In need of a somewhere to convalesce, he books into Waverley Abbey, a sanatorium cum hotel, for the overly anxious.

Sadly, there will be no rest here.

When celebrated mystic, Mary Shelley, comes to stay, she is followed by a plethora of acolytes all eager to find out what awaits them in the next world holds. When Mary is found dead in the ruins of Waverley Abbey, the question is: Did she know too much?

When another body is discovered, DCI Farley puts his recovery on hold to find the mystic’s shameful secret and put an end to the killing.