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Once the peaceful Small Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double homicide, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an interesting dilemma: How did an upper-crust Reverend arrived at rest, slit throat to slit throat, alongside a community derelict of the cheapest order? Questioned with the investigation of the crime that seems to have limitless reasons, Dalgliesh examines the menacing internet spun around a half-burned journal and a violet-eyed widow who's pregnant and saturated in malice--even while wanting to fill the space of reasoning that joined both of these disparate men in scarlet demise. .