Investigating the murder of a socialite family, Inspector Wexford is forced to face his own deepest feelings. Called "one of Rendell's darkest and most suble character studies" (SF Chronicle).
Wexford is horrified by the carnage he encounters at Tancred Manor, home of a famous anthropologist, but he is determined to do all that he can for 17-year-old Daisy, the only survivor of the mass murders that obliterated her family.
Efter at v re blevet sendt ud til en herreg?rd tr der Reginald Wexford ind til synet af en grufuld scene. Den ber mte forfatterinde Davy Flory er blevet brutalt myrdet og sammen med forfatterinden er hendes mand og datter ligeledes blevet sl?et ihjel p? bestialsk vis. Den eneste...