When an abandoned Land Rover leads to the discovery of two headless corpses buried in the Botswana mopane forest, Assistant Superintendent Marieke Englebrecht is presented with the challenge of identifying them, then determining who killed them and why. Her investigations take her to the bush in the northern parts of Botswana, England and Italy. The murders were cleverly done and it takes all her skills as an investigator to uncover the truth and then all her wiles to bring the suspects in for questioning.