Synopsis
In her most electrifying mystery novel yet, Elizabeth
George again demonstrates why she is hailed as the
"queen of the mystery genre" (Entertainment
Weekly). When a resident of a sleepy seatown on the coast of
Essex is found murdered, Barbara Havers, working without her
long-time partner Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, must
probe not only the mind of a murderer and a case very close
to her own heart, but the terrible price people must pay for
deceiving others . . . and themselves.