"A beguiling read . . . A cold-case whodunnit [and] a Shadow of the Wind-style quest" - John Dugdale, Sunday Times
"Bestselling writer Luca D''Andrea has concocted a fearsome witches'' brew of myth, memory and mayhem"Sunday Times Crime Club
A haunting thriller drawing on myths, legends and fairy tales, set in a mysterious Italian valley - from Italy''s bestselling answer to Stephen King.
"D''Andrea piles on the action and the atmosphere with the panache of a seasoned writer" Marcel Berlins, The Times
It begins with a slap in the face.
Out walking his St Bernard, Tony Carcano is confronted by a girl on a motorbike who shows him a photograph from his past. Of him posing with the body of a young woman. Smiling.
"Why were you laughing?"
It''s not the last Tony sees of Sybille Knapp, an orphan whose mother d
