Overwhelmed by her duties training the new town gaurd while planning her wedding, Siobhán visits a discriminating new bookshop in town before becoming embroiled in the murder of a visiting author who had infamously insulted the work of another writer.
Putting their wedding on hold due to the discovery of a human skeleton at a farmhouse near the church, garda Siobhan and Macdara must solve a fifty-year-old cold case of a missing groom, which heats up when a fresh corpse appears.