Michelle W. (maw68) reviewed on 4/9/2006 + 21 more book reviews

On the East Anglican seacoast a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. Then, the body of a student is found buried in the sand, and the boy's influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Adam Dagliesh, the son of a parson, once spent happy summers at the school. A detective who loves poetry, a man who has known loss and discovery, Dagliesh is the perfect candidate to look for the truth in a remote rarified community of the faithful -- and the frightened. For when one death leads to another, Dagliesh finds himself steeped in a world of good and evil, of stifled passions and hidden pasts, where someone has cause to not just commit one crime, but to begin an unholy order of murder...

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