Deborah J Miles

Orchard View Deborah J Miles

Digging in the garden, builder and current owner, Bill Maynard, discovers some old bones. He worries that the discovery will upset his plans for renovating and selling the house. Fortunately, his neighbour tells him the whole area was a burial site at the time of the Black Death and finding bones is commonplace. "Well, as they're so old and the museums have enough bones already, I suppose we can ignore them. It's not like there's been a murder and we've just found the body," he justified his decision. But had they?His discovery sets off a chain of unfortunate events.