Stephen Killigan has been cold since the day he arrived in Cambridge. Seven hundred years of history staining the stones of the university have given him a chill he can t shake. Then he stumbles across the body of a missing beauty queen – a body which disappears before the police arrive…

Unwittingly, Killigan has entered the sinister world of Jackamore Grass on a trail that reaches back to seventeenth-century Cambridge. It s a world of cadavers, philosophers and scholars of deadly beauty, a world where a person s corpse can be found before they even go missing, of a city and a person that hold far too many secrets written in blood.