When a body with no head or hands turns up in the River Thames, forensic specialist Laughton Rees is called in to consult. But what at first seems to be a typical, if gruesome, London crime case...

Never go back into the woods. Never go back and never look back… Midsummer’s Eve. Bonfires dot the English countryside and flicker in the ancient Forest of Dean as costumed revelers dance and drink...