Description

Within the extreme, dry summer, the seas of Thornfield Reservior have now been exhausted, exposing the wrecks of the little Yorkshire town that lay at its base, taking with it the unknown bones of a brutally murdered young lady. Detective Chief Inspector Banks faces a difficult challenge: he must unmask a killer who has escaped recognition for half of a millennium. Since the black key of Hobb's Conclusion continue steadily to bother the policeman although the city that bred subsequently has died—and long following its former citizens have now been spread to far locations. .