A tragic accident, murder or suicide? Amy Latimer's death was not an ordinary one, puzzling the police in her Cotswold town as they try to determine why a young woman from a wealthy family should have gone off into a forest to die. Nor was her will an ordinary one, leaving the surviving family members angry and frustrated.

In an effort to unravel the true circumstances of Amy's death, clock repairer Jacob Silver and his wife Sarah join the police to track down a mysterious woman and a hidden fortune, finding a motive for murder that is also out of the ordinary.

'Out of the Ordinary' is the 17th novel in the Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries series.