

Some things are better left buried. Recovering on a remote Scottish island after a near-fatal injury, DCS Simon Serrailler hopes to leave his trauma behind. But when a body washes ashore, he is drawn into a new murder inquiry, and the fragile peace he has found...

Susan Hill--the Man Booker Prize nominee and winner of the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham, and John Llewellyn Rhys awards--returns with a hair-raising new novel, the ninth book in one of the most acclaimed mystery series of our time. Featuring the enigmatic and brooding chief police...


Recovering on a remote Scottish island, his peace doesn't last long. He is pulled in to a murder inquiry by the overstretched local police. A newcomer, popular with the islanders, has died in perplexing circumstances. The community's reactions are complicated and fragile...


