Publisher's Synopsis
On an eerily quiet May morning in a remote corner of Scotland, a woman is found bludgeoned to death, the silence broken only by the ringing of her mobile telephone. DI Marjory Fleming thrives on the adrenalin that comes with heading a major crime investigation, and with the discovery of not one, but two murdered corpses, she's about to feel the pressure as never before. Beneath a veneer of contented prosperity the community of Drumbreck conceals nasty secrets and daily betrayals, and Fleming is about to learn that while the dead can't tell lies, the living most certainly can...
