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Winner of the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger Award
It’s been ten years since Phoebe Marbury’s husband disappeared from their country manor, Streech Grange, when one afternoon her gardener discovers a decomposed body in the ice house. Now in her mid-thirties, Phoebe shares the manor with two unmarried friends, and the rumors in the village suggest they’re up to something–witchcraft, lesbianism, child abuse. Chief Inspector Walsh is eager to find out for himself when he’s called to investigate the body. What he discovers is a faceless, contorted corpse and three women who have no interest in helping out the police, and clearly know something they’re not telling him.
Minette Walters’s first novel gives a raw, contemporary spin to a classic mystery convention, and the result is splendid . . . an extraordinary debut (St. Petersburg Times).
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