From one of Frances’s leading crime writers, whose The Messengers of Death was named by Publishers Weekly as one of their 10 Best Mysteries of 2008, comes this exceptional
classic mystery. At the turn of the century in Upper Provence, a family is vio lently massacred. The sole survivor of the tragedy is a three-week-old baby. Twenty years later, the orphaned
survivor returns home to avenge his family’s killers. Then unexpected secrets set in motion a dreadful unveiling of the past...