In this absorbing new entry in the
acclaimed New York
Times
bestselling series, Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge is
caught
up in a twisted web of vengeance and murder.
On the
north coast of Cornwall, an apparent act of mercy
is
repaid by an arrest for murder. Four young women have
been
accused of the crime. A shocked father calls in a favor
at
the Home Office. Scotland Yard is asked to review the
case.
However, Inspector Ian Rutledge is not the first
Inspector
to reach the village. Following in the shoes of a dead
man,
he is told the case is all but closed. Even as it takes
an
unexpected personal turn, Rutledge will require all his
skill to deal with the incensed families of the accused,
the
grieving parents of the victim, and local police eager to
see these four women sent to the infamous Bodmin Gaol.
Then
why hasn’t the killing stopped?
With no shred of
evidence to clear the accused, Rutledge
must plunge deep into the darkest secrets of a wild,
beautiful and dangerous place if he is to find a killer
who
may—or may not—hold the key to their fate.