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Even today, the reduced, thin wail of a baby could be noticed in Keldaleis rich green valleys. 3 hundred years back, as story goes, the scared Yorkshire villagers choked a crying girl in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to flee the forces of Cromwell's raiders.Now into Keldale's pastoral internet of old homes and older strategies comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Combined with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been delivered to resolve a savage killing that's surprised the tranquil country. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys hasbeen present in her finest gown, an axe in her lap, placed in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse.