Publisher's Synopsis
When Dr. Raymond Ferens moves to a practice at Milham in the Moor in north Devon, he and his wife Anne are enchanted with the beautiful hill-top village lying so close to moor and sky. At first they see only its charm, but soon they begin to uncover its secrets - envy, hatred and malice. Everyone says that Sister Monica, warden of the local children's home, is a saint - but is she? A few months after the Ferens' arrival, her body is found drowned in the mill-race. Chief Inspector Macdonald faces one of his most difficult cases in a village determined not to betray its dark secrets to a stranger.
