The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton
Dando with splendid fodder for gossip, prompting speculation of arcane
rituals and bizarre sexual practices. But with the murder of the
commune's leaders, the rumor-mill goes into overdrive. In trying to
solve those murders, Chief Inspector Barnaby is less excited than
exasperated. The residents of the Windhorse commune may have been
seeking the simple life, but they're all concealing complicated pasts'or
past lives. As in Death of a Hollow Man, Graham is at her most gleeful
when skewering the eccentricities of a closed community, and no one
survives unscathed.