Ashes to Ashes: The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon

Master Hugh, Kate, and their children attend the Midsummer's Eve fire. Early next morning Hugh hears the passing bell ring out from the Church of St. Beornwald, and moments later is summoned. Tenants collecting ashes to spread upon their fields have found burned bones.

Hugh learns that the bones are those of a bailiff from a nearby manor. Someone has slain him, and placed his body in the fire to destroy evidence of murder.

Bailiffs are not popular. Did this man die at the hand of some angry tenant? Hugh soon discovers there is quite another reason for murder...