Description:The incredible true story of the Wycherley Murders - the crimes that
inspired the major new four-part drama starring Olivia Colman.
In
2013, the skeletal remains of two elderly people, William and Patricia
Wycherley, were unearthed from the back garden of the house they had
mysteriously left 15 years earlier. But why were their relatives still
getting Christmas cards from them until the year before they were found?
Why were they still on the electoral roll and why were they still
replying to letters from their doctor? Suspicion soon falls on their
daughter Susan Edwards, who tells a tale of family feud and betrayal,
and a freak accident that led to her parents’ deaths and a forced
cover-up. But is she telling the truth, or have she and her husband
Christopher concocted the story so they can literally get away with
murder? Based on real events, A Garden of Bones explores one of the most
brutal and notorious murders in recent times and is told through the
eyes of a down-at-heel news reporter looking for the scoop that could
revive his career, a senior detective hoping for the next step up the
greasy career ladder, and Susan Edwards, the downtrodden daughter whose
fantasist personality makes it hard to know what is real and what is
not.