Táto séria sleduje osudy rodinného historika, ktorý sa ponára hlboko do minulosti, aby odhalil zabudnuté tajomstvá a rodinné väzby. Každý prípad ho zavedie na dobrodružnú cestu časom, kde sa pretína história s osobnými drámami. Čitatelia budú svedkami napínavého pátrania po predkoch a odhaľovania šokujúcich právd, ktoré ovplyvňujú súčasnosť. Je to pútavé čítanie pre milovníkov histórie aj detektívnych zápletiek.
Genealogist Nigel Barnes is brought into a police search for a serial killer who is scratching a serial number on his victims and dismembering each of them in a unique way. The murders echo a series of killings more than 100 years ago and Nigel must trace the links between the victims then and the victims now.
Katie Drake was an affluent single mother living in Queen's Park - until someone cut her throat and tore out her tongue. Worse still, the killer has abducted her 14-year-old daughter, Naomi. Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster quickly sees chilling parallels with the disappearance of teenage Leonie Stamey three years earlier.