'Southern England, August 1936. An artefact from the dark ages – a wolf carved in jet – is stolen from the archaeology department of St Matthew’s College. A man is murdered in an antique store. Historian George Haye translates two eighth-century documents for the investigating police, and is soon nearly murdered himself. What is it about the documents? And why does the wolf seem to be at the black heart of all the evil that unfolds around him?' (From the publisher's website.)
