内容简介：
Young history professor Charles Meredith may be researching a book about a Victorian crime of passion, but passion is lacking in his own life. When Lotte Graham discovers her husband's decieit, it's time to act. Student Claire Thompson is a loner and on the night she boasts that her professor Charles Meredith is taking her to supper, she disappears... As Charles searches for the woman who can prove his innocence, as the police-hunt for Claire intensifies, as Lotte struggles for independence, help comes from a silent voice, a voice that speaks from the grave.