When Alex Duggins comes across a terrifying scene at the site of a new housing development, once again she is drawn into a case of brutal murder.

A new year arrives and winter holds Britain''s Cotswold Hills in its icy grip once more. But it''s the construction of a new housing development that''s causing the residents of Folly-on-Weir most concernAs she passes the site late one afternoon, pub owner Alex Duggins is confronted by the terrifying scene of a construction trailer on fire and a man desperately trying to break the door down.

Her efforts to help - and the subsequent findings of the police forensic pathologist - draw Alex and her friend Tony Harrison into a major murder investigation whose tentacles will reach right to the heart of the tight-knit Folly community - and into Alex''s own past .

Format Inbunden Omfång 240 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Canongate Books Utgivningsdatum 2018-09-28 ISBN 9780727829078