When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr. Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring, long-standing facial scar, she has every
prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset's most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life. She will never
leave Cheverell Manor alive. When Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder ��and a second death occurs ��even more complicated problems than the question of innocence
or guilt arise.
