Publisher's Synopsis
"A sparkling star, newly risen in the crime fiction firmament." - COLIN DEXTER In the bleak, snowbound Cambridgeshire Fens, a car is winched from the frozen River Lark. Inside, locked in a solid block of ice, is a man's mutilated body. High on Ely Cathedral, a second body is discovered, grotesquely 'riding' a stone gargoyle. The decaying corpse, it seems, has been there for more than thirty years...Philip Dryden, lead reporter for the local newspaper, knows he's on to a great story when forensic evidence links both victims to one terrifying event in 1966. But the story also offers Dryden the key to a very personal mystery - and brings him face to face with a ruthless killer...
