Prologue - someone's on a cathedral roof. If only they hadn't answered the phone. It all began 50 years before.
Willow Eliot (she works in a museum) delivers an exhibition (her first) to a cathedral. It's late - 1 am. She discovers that a body has fallen from the roof. Suicide? Policeman Martin (aged 45-50, from Rotterdam) is phoned. A 35 y.o. mother had fallen from the tower decades earlier.
Willow goes to her B&B which she has for the weekend. Her parents and ill grandmother (Noni) are expected. She has a dominant, married twin sister Flis who's going to be married this week in the cathedral to Sunny, a local policeman. Willow has recently split from Otis, who she'd been with for 2 years. She meets Theo again, an ex of Flis who she had a fling with.
The dead man, Joel, was about 80 - an ex-verger. His son Michael, a clergyman, lives locally with wife Heather. Michael seems to have a secret.
Willow's shown up the tower (St Alban's) by Noah, who tries to kiss her. She escapes after a tussle. Later he falls off the tower.
Flis disappears. Her smashed phone is found.
The exhibit material came from a collection by someone who received treatment in a mental hospital. Willow had collection material from other mental patients.
Joel was a wifebeater.
Jass (Joel's grandson) is seen at night dropping letters into a lake. He was also known to have argued with the 3 dead/missing people in their final hours.
Years before, a 7 y.o. twin girl, Alice, was put in a mental home for pushing her mother off the tower, though actually she'd been trying to stop Joel accost her mother.
Jass, 24, got £200k from Joel. Joel has been asking money from cured mental hospital patients in return for his silence. Jass had discovered this. Joel was trying to keep him silent. Michael has been spending money, knowing that he'll get $2 million went his father dies.
When Alice comes out of the hospital she changes her name and eventually runs a B&B. When she meets Flis she realises she's the twin sister of Flis's mother. Flis is found, Noah recovers, and the wedding goes ahead.
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