Private Investigator Charles Hunter is used to receiving unusual packages, but five disembodied hands are a surprise, to say the least.With the help of Netty and Constance, Charles is able to trace the hands back to bodies that have recently passed through the local police mortuary. But when their police associate, DCI Locke, refuses to investigate, Constance suspects a coverup, and the three set out to uncover the mystery of who sent the hands, and why.When a guest arrives at the mortuary with a link to one of the disembodied hands, Netty and Constance must try to find out what DCI Locke is hiding, and what his connection is to the body in their waiting room.

Fleur Mason wakes in the house of Edwina Lovett and her son Tristan, well-meaning strangers who found her wandering in the rain at midnight, dressed in only her nightgown.Fearing she is being hunted, Fleur pretends to have lost her memory. The kindly Lovetts care for her, even as she relives the traumatic events that brought her there; a marriage that ended in murder.As Fleur struggles through hallucinations and fever, she slowly becomes aware that she isn't the only one in the house with something to hide.