When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, booked into a private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon and a week's peaceful convalescence in a beautiful manor house. She was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive.
Dalgliesh and his team are swiftly called in to investigate, but when a second murder occurs, the situation raises an even more complicated problem than the question of innocence or guilt.
An eagerly-awaited new detective novel from P. D. James, displaying her distinctive richness of characterisation, vivid evocation of place and thrilling mystery.
