1962, Inspector Alker is called to the body of a woman, her throat has been cut and she is laid out naked in a sexual manner. The body is found in a pub back yard with no means of access. Who is she, how did she get there? Questions without answers for sixteen years till a missing woman's photograph arrives on Chief Inspector Alker's desk, an identical twin to the Body at the Bell. A body from 1942 with the same Modus Operandi, 1885 the same A serial killer is on the lose, who is over a hundred years old All with identical twins currently missing and with oddities, not of the time period. How can you catch a killer who isn't born when he kills, and his victim isn't born either? It becomes a life long quest for Alker to find and catch the killer, but when he does how can he prosecute the killer? Laughed at by his superiors, and helped by two of his team Alker sets out to prove he is right, the killer is burying the bodies in time and is on the lose now.