When one day the corpse of a young man appears in the tomb of a medieval knight, the case falls to the municipal constable Daniel Haze, who has never investigated a murder himself. Suspicion immediately falls on the only foreigner who arrived in the village of Birch Hill just before the crime took place, but in time this American captain turns out to be an unexpected asset. Jason Redmond, an ex-soldier and an experienced surgeon, not only willingly helps Daniel Haz, but also puts his own life on the line to catch the killer.

Redmond and Haz don't know the motive, they don't have suspects or enough leads, but they have to solve the murder before one of them becomes the killer's next victim.

A historical mystery thriller from the second half of the nineteenth century that brilliantly portrays greed, crime, misogyny, racism, arrogance, hatred and fear of "the others" in the colonial era.

The first book in the Redmond and Haze series is also the first title of the successful author to be translated into Czech.