The Poppy and the Barrow (Blackwell, #2)

For DCI Eleanor Blackwell, history is a map to the truth. But when a renowned archaeologist is found dead in the bleak winter Fens, the clues left on his body—a single pressed poppy and a line of haunting war poetry—point to a history that kills.

The ritualistic signature is an echo of a past case, pulling Blackwell and her team into the orbit of a shadowy cabal of academic purists. This secret society, hidden within the nation’s most elite institutions, believes some historical narratives are worth killing for, and they see themselves as the guardians of the past.

From ancient burial mounds to the dreaming spires of Cambridge, Blackwell must hunt an enemy that hides in plain sight. To stop the body count from rising, she must unravel a conspiracy centuries in the making, before the next verse in their deadly poem is written in blood.