Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner Barbara Havers team up with Detective Sergeant Winston Nkata to find a killer who is preying on young boys.
A novel that follows the sequence of events leading up to the brutal murder of the wife of Scotland Yard's Inspector Thomas Lynley by a twelve-year-old boy.
When Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Eighth Earl of Asherton, and his fiancee, Deborah Cotter, arrive at Howenstow, Lynley's family home, they find the atmosphere rife with tension.
When a savage murder stuns the peaceful countryside of Scotland, Inspector Thomas Lynley is called in to solve the crime, but before he can do that he must find his way through the town's web of lies and secrets.
