By Peter Robinson
In a global of terror and uncertainty, what does one small loss of life matter?
The physique striking from a tree in a calm wooden seems to Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot to be a suicide. additional research into the sorrowful dying of Mark Hardcastle, the set fashion designer for the neighborhood novice theater corporation, results in the corpse of Mark's older, wealthier lover, brutally bludgeoned to death.
Suddenly the case calls for the eye of leader Inspector Alan Banks, known as again from his holiday although not anything indicates this wasn't a criminal offense of ardour via regret and self-destruction. yet machinations in the shadow global of mystery govt purely upload to the colours of darkness already shading this troubling affair. And a obdurate policeman who are not anxious away might lose every little thing in a single terrifying, explosive fast.
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