When Thomas Harding retired to Easterbrook Manor, he soon found it held more than the house agents advertised It was also clear that Easterbrook, so calm on the outside, had more than one skeleton in its parish cupboard What for instance was the guilty secret the village seemed to share with the old Barbar family and what connection could this have with the work of an Elizabethan craftsman? Harding found himself helping solve two crimes, one recent, the other over a century old only when all the answers were found could the skeletons be laid to rest