Sisters

In a hushed courtroom, the scene is set for one of the most celebrated trials of recent years. A trial caused by a bitter family wrangle. A trial that, as it unfolds, will reveal the dramatic story of the turbulent lives and careers of its three central characters, Hester, Hildegarde and Bonnie Morris. When a severed leg is found on the banks of the Thames, Dr. George Barnabas, female forensic pathologist and determined investigator, is summoned to the macabre scene. But with no sign of the rest of the body, she cannot say how the man died. Her next case is equally bizarre: a terribly burned woman in a first-floor flat? and the fireman thinks the fire started in the body itself. Despite budget battles and squabbles among her lab staff, George desperately wants to pursue these with the local detective chief inspector? her lover, Gus Hathaway? but he has been so tied up on another big A severed leg is found, but there is not much the police or their pathologist, George Barnabus, can do. After two further deaths George's suspicions are aroused, and when her lover, Chief Inspector Gus Hathaway, finds himself in trouble, George begins to unravel a dangerous crime.