The LighthouseCombe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted

white darkness that is strangely comforting New York Times

The Sisterhood always knows best

Barely a teenager himself

is one of the few men Thoresby trusts

Aided by the tiny-but-tough Wee Free Men

Sent to cover the case on his first major assignment

sinks deeper and deeper into mental despair

a love saga and a savage yet tenderly lyrical fugitive vision

Twenty years later Marina is dead

First Born twists and deceives

narrowly saving both realms from ruin

and only they can be the ones to stop it