In the peaceful wooded valley outside Swainshead, a body lies rotting. It is the second mysterious death here in recent years - and it won't be the last...Inspector Banks knows that once a body is uncovered, other things surface as well. Family rivalries. Secret passions. Private shames. And now he must walk into the valley of death and bring a killer out of hiding...
- ISBN10 0670824798
- ISBN13 9780670824793
- Publish Date 26 April 1990 (first published 31 December 1989)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 9 July 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Viking
- Edition Open market ed
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English