A robbery gone wrong - a damaged boy murders an old couple and disappears... Seventeen years later the discovery of an impaled body sets Emma Saint and her team on the trail of a killer. As the body count rises, so does the list of suspects. Sordid goings-on at a high-class hotel, the involvement of a fundamentalist cult, and a suicidal young man - there are plenty of motives in the present. But the victims are also linked to the brutal crime from the past... Tension, humour and tragedy combine with a host of believably suspicious characters to keep the reader guessing - until the identity of the dusk messenger is finally revealed.