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The rural idyll of life in a remote Welsh valley has turned sour for the Cordiners. For David, life in the local police force is deathly dull after the exhilaration of working for the Met. For Tessa, the hostility of the local community is a daily torment. Then a young nurse is found dead at a nearby beauty spot, her corpse strewn with wild flowers in some sick ceremony.

Deep in a Derbyshire cave, the skeleton of an 11-year-old girl has lain undisturbed for 18 years. Its discovery brings to light the half-forgotten and horrifying rituals performed by a group of children in their chilling 'Egyptian game'. But the game is by no means over. Technology adds a new dimension to the sinister manipulation practiced by the group's former leader, and a primitive fear returns to haunt his former acolytes.

Pleasure is the highest good: the group who called themselves the Cyrenaics embrace the hedonistic principle until the death of one of their members from an overdose. Sobered, the group went their separate ways. One headed for Canada, another disappeared and a third was believed to have committed suicide - at least until his body turns up in the wreck of a car swept up on the Solway mud flats.

Vi er i en afsidesliggende landsby i Wales. Hertil kommer ægteparret Cordiner, David som er politibetjent, Tessa som ønsker at få fred og ro væk fra London for at hellige sig sit maleri. Men det er ikke nemt at falde til og blive accepteret i det lille, lukkede samfund, og især Tessa kæmper dagligt med småborgerligheden og skepsisen mod det fremmede.

Atmosfærefyldt og spændende klassisk krimi, som introducerer en ny, stærk hovedperson. Vi er i Galloway, Skotland, hvor der bogstavelig talt lugter af død. En katastrofal virus hærger og ødelægger alt. Det går værst ud over kvæget, som er vitalt for området. Kriminalinspektør Marjory Fleming befinder sig i orkanens øje, bål bliver tændt, kvæget brændt og jorden bliver brugt som gravplads for alle de døde dyr. Luften er tæt af ildelugtende, kvælende røg. Under dette gravearbejde i den lille, søvnige købstad Kirkluce, støder man pludselig på, hvad der viser sig at være menneskeknogler.