Fosse House home of the reclusive Luisa Gilmore harbours curious secrets - secrets that stretch back almost a century to the ill-fated Palestrina Choir in its remote Belgian conventWhen Oxford don Michael Flint travels to the house to trace the origins of the long-dead Choir he is at once aware of the houses eerie menace Who is the shadowy young man who lurks in the grounds and why does his exact likeness appear in a sketch from What is the strange whispering that echoes through the corridors And why is Luisa so afraid when a storm makes it necessary for Michael to spend the night inside the houseBack in Oxford when Nell West uncovers the story of the infamous Holzminden sketch - the lost legendary drawing from World War I - a dark fragment of the past begins to stir A fragment that Michael in the lonely old house may not be able to resist.
