'A cracking good read that is recommended for all collections' -
Booklist Starred Review
A traveller's gory tale strikes a little too close to home for
Lassair . . .
Apprentice healer Lassair isn't too alarmed when a travelling peddler
relates a grisly tale of a red-bearded giant breaking into a woman's
home and caving in her skull like an eggshell; peddlers, she has
observed, tend towards the dramatic. But her attitude changes when she
learns that the dead woman is a distant relation. The incident makes
Lassair's family uneasy, for the intruder seemed to be searching for
something. What could it be? Lassair has no idea. But as the stranger
grows increasingly desperate, his search brings violence to her very
home.