The vicar of Moresk felt disquiet even before he opened the church door There was a noise, a sustained jarring chord from the organ and the padlock missing from the doors Inside the chancel lay the body of Jessica Dobell, partly undressed and with her skull smashed in The work of a Satanist cult? Superintendent Wycliffe doubted it there was an air of violent hatred in the village, not all aimed at the dead woman When the second murder occurred he knew he must act quickly, but though he thought he knew who the killer was, how could he prove it?