Marcia Pullman has been found dead at home in the leafysuburbs of Bulawayo.Chief Inspector Edmund Dube isonto the case at once, but it becomes increasingly clear thatthere are those, including the dead woman’s husband, whodo not want him asking questions. The case drags Edmund back into his childhood to when hismother’s employers disappeared one day and were neverheard from again, an incident that has shadowed his life. As his investigation into the death progresses, Edmundrealises the two mysteries are inextricably linked and thatunravelling the past is a dangerous undertaking threateninghis very sense of self.