- The team must uncover the guilty secret their victims share in order to learn the identity of not just the killer but the potential victim too.
- As Jay Fennell becomes the third victim, with the same alchemic inscription beside his body Hathaway works out that the victims have all performed the same esoteric quasi-Christian ritual, which is supposed to bring forgiveness. However the key to the mystery is provided by a road death, ruled as accidental, from eight years earlier. At the same time Hathaway achieves a kind of closure with his father.—don @ minifie-1
- A college dean is murdered in what appears to be ritualistic fashion. The victim's closest friends all appear to be fans of poet Charles Williams, one of the famed Oxford Inklings. Lewis and Hathaway's investigations also lead them to suspect a link to the practice of alchemy. Could the Williams and alchemy ties lead them to the perpetrator?—grantss
- After finding an unusual tattoo on Phil's body and two more murder victims with exact same inking, Lewis and Hathaway discover that the tattoo signifies membership to a secret esoteric society that believes past sins can be forgiven by the literal sharing of guilt. Before the fourth and final murder takes place, the team must uncover the guilty secret that their victims share, and the baffling link to alchemy, in order to learn the identity of not just the killer but the potential victim too. Meanwhile, Hathaway is struggling to accept his father's illness and instead invests all his energies into finding out who he was before the dementia took hold.
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