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La petite ville de Glastonbury, qui abrite une vieille abbaye où furent inhumés, selon la légende, Arthur et Guenièvre, est construite au pied d'une étrange colline, le Tor, siège de l'immémorial pouvoir des druides et objet de cultes ésotériques. Un soir, alors qu'il est en train de travailler, Jack Montfort, un jeune veuf, constate que sa main a tracé, contre sa volonté, des bribes de phrases en latin, dans une écriture qui n'est pas la sienne... Qui lui envoie de tels messages, et pourquoi ? Bientôt, des meurtres vont être commis. L'atmosphère de la cité devient de plus en plus lourde. Affolé, Jack appelle à l'aide son cousin Duncan Kincaid, commissaire à Scotland Yard, bien connu des lecteurs de Deborah Crombie. Accompagné de sa fidèle Gemma James, il va tenter d'élucider cette affaire. Une palpitante enquête, entre liturgie et magie.

Gemma James is adjusting to professional and personal changes that include her eagerly sought promotion to the rank of inspector - and a future now intricately entwined with Duncan Kincaid. But her new responsibilities are put to the test when she is placed in charge of a particularly brutal homicide: The lovely young wife of a wealthy antiques dealer has been found murdered on fashionable Notting Hill. Dawn Arrowood was six weeks pregnant. Her lover, Alex Dunn, a porcelain dealer in London's bustling Portobello Market, appears absolutely devastated by her death, but the main focus of Gemma's investigation is soon Karl Arrowood, who had the most powerful motive for killing his unfaithful wife. But this case sets off warning bells for Duncan: It's far too similar to an unsolved murder in which an antiques dealer was killed in precisely the same way. And when the escalating violence claims yet another victim, he and Gemma find themselves at increasing odds with each other - as two separate investigations become linked in the most startling of ways

Crombie weaves a tale of two boys who become allies, then friends, in a story of trust and betrayal whose repercussions echo across six decades.