An incredible event disrupts the pastoral idyll of the lovely English village of Bishop Lacey. A team of archaeologists comes to make the discovery of the century - to excavate the tomb of St. Tancred This alone is enough to give food for gossip a hundred years in advance. But in the place where the tomb of the saint should be, they find a fairly fresh corpse of a local handsome organist... The investigation, as usual, is zealously taken by the eternal nightmare of local policemen Flavia de Luce - a curious snoop of twelve years old. To find the killer, she will have to stick her nose very deep not only into the secrets of the quiet Bishop-Lacey, but also into her own family closet full of skeletons, and one Saint Tancred knows that she will be able to excavate there.