There lies your love Malorie Blackman and great destiny awaits this

and great destiny awaits this young prince

now known as the Rot

and the repercussions of history and faith

The author's depiction of the murderer's unravelling mind

There lies your love Malorie Blackman and great destiny awaits thisIn Deerham Hills a girl is missing and another suspected of harming her. An older woman is found dead: murder or suicide? Then there are the terrifying letters sent to Tom Gilroy, another suicide case, and a Peeping Tom. Charmian Daniels, Jennie Melville's policewoman heroine, has all this to cope with: and she meets again the London policeman Robert Ascham, and finds him even more attractive and disturbing than before.