The Vault

In the peaceful garden of a London house, a manhole cover has just been raised.
On the cellar floor in a plastic bag lies the body of a badly decomposed man. Beside him are the remains of two women and the skeleton of a young man, the skull almost detached.
For Inspector Wexford, this is a case worth coming out of retirement for. Soon he is trying to establish who the victims in the vault are- and most importantly who put them there.
But a shocking development in his private life means that his search for the truth is about to become a lot more complicated.