A Body in the Barn: ...an investigation is the last thing anyone needs

Handsome, naked and murdered in a barn on the edge of the fens. A fate that poses many questions.

But who wants them asked, let alone answered?

Certainly not the local lord anxious to keep his dubious land dealings out of the public eye. Luckily, he has a tame constable and a needy cousin who can be persuaded to dispose of the body decently but without reporting it. Unfortunately, that's a hanging offence were it to be discovered.

There it might have ended if the body hadn't been that of a man...