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When the Sealed Knot re-enact enacts a Civil War battle on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple of corpses sneak off for a crafty drink – one of them thoughtfully buried a six-pack in the shade of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay cool, but after unearthing two cans he can find no more. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced that it's a relic of the battle. One of the corpses goes missing – his car left at the nearby racecourse – and it turns out that the bone is nowhere near as old as they think, but the head of Bath CID still has difficulty in establishing who is buried in that lonely spot.

The live 'corpse' was a university lecturer: how and why can he disappear so completely? Who is the vagrant who seems determined to disrupt various events, intent on stealing food for which he obviously cannot pay? Just what do the members of the Lansdown Society – a group of upper -class vigilantes – know about what has been going on at Lansdown Hill?

If police procedurals appeal to you and you've exhausted [[:Category:Ian Rankin|Ian Rankin]] and are looking for something a little more unusual you might like to try [[Playing With Bones (DI Joe Plantagenet) by Kate Ellis|Playing With Bones]] by Kate Ellis or [[Cut Short (DI Geraldine Steel) by Leigh Russell|Cut Short]] by Leigh Russell. We can also recommend [[Vigilante by Shelley Harris]].