When an Oxford psychic is murdered Lewis and Hathaway are soon on the case and one of the first things they learn is that he wasn`t a psychic at all! He was a student researching and attempting to debunk people`s spiritual beliefs who was acting as a psychic to study the sort of people who when to see them… and taking their money of course. Working out who did it won`t be easy as there are plenty of motives; it could be his professor who was involved in a shady government contract, the professional psychic who had uncovered a fraud, his wife who feared he was having an affair or somebody who felt betrayed when they learnt he was a fraud. The method of murder is strange too he was injected with a horse tranquiliser. Inevitably before the case is solved there will be another death and one of our protagonists will find himself in real danger.