From Susannah Stacey, author of eight Superintendent Bone mysteries, the penultimate installment of the "polished detective series...Bone, the attractive, unflappable British copper is] witty and literate" (The New York Times Review of Books). Biddinghurst, a reputedly haunted village in Kent, seems to be home to a serial killer. Superintendent Robert Bone steps in to investigate, and instinctively tosses out the obvious--suggesting instead an unlikely, but disturbingly plausible, scenario for the crimes.