A searing suspense from award-winning author Peter Robinson - an insightful and haunting novel of past crimes and present evil. When a drought drains the local Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering a long-drowned small village and the skeleton of a murder victim from the 1940s, Detective Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabot must investigate the decades-old crime and unm A searing suspense from award-winning author Peter Robinson - an insightful and haunting novel of past crimes and present evil. When a drought drains the local Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering a long-drowned small village and the skeleton of a murder victim from the 1940s, Detective Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabot must investigate the decades-old crime and unmask an evil secret from the past.