Bruno Courrèges, chief of police in the Périgord village of St Denis, is driving the ridge above the Vézère one frosty morning when he finds Monique, a local businesswoman, dead in her car with a suicide note beside her. It looks like an open-and-shut case, but disputes over her will stir Bruno's doubts, and a whispering campaign soon casts him as a spy for French intelligence rather than a village copper. With his job at stake, he must find out what really happened to Monique. Martin Walker's beloved series at its warmest and most suspenseful.
