THE NEW FRONTLIST THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OF COFFIN ROAD AND THE BLACKHOUSE

In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the West of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heat wave, a drought exposed her remains - bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime.

No one was ever convicted of her murder. But now, forensic expert Enzo Macleod is reviewing this stone-cold case - the toughest of those he has been challenged to solve.

Yet when Enzo finds a flaw in the original evidence surrounding Lucie's murder, he opens a Pandora's box that not only raises old ghosts but endangers his entire family.

"A rip-roaring thriller . . . thoroughly enjoyable" - Mail on Sunday

"Western France - now May's own stamping ground - is as much a character in the book as the Hebrides were in his formidable Isle of Lewis sequence" - Guardian

"Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth" - New York Times

"One of the best regarded crime series of recent years" - Independent

"May's novels are strong on place and the wounds left by old relationships" - Sunday Times

"Will have the reader relishing every tendency of description and characterization" - Independent

"Dark, exciting and atmospheric" - Scotland on Sunday

"Powerful and authentic" - Glasgow Sunday Herald

"Fast, exciting ... an entertaining read that will also give food for thought" - Irish Times

"A tense and atmospheric thriller with a heart-stopping ending" - Tangled Web

"Truly the best of May's series so far, this is not to be missed" - The Good Book Guide