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