NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this "treat for mystery lovers" (USA
Today), the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the
blood-soaked scene of a double murder, and Scotland Yard Commander Adam
Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum. - Part of the bestselling
mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV
How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat,
next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the
investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh
explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a
violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice--all the while
hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in
bright red death....