The people of Streech village had never trusted the women living up at the Grange . . . For ten years before, Phoebe Maybury's husband David had vanished from there. But does the discovery of an unidentifiable corpse in the old ice house now mean that the police can finally close the case on his disappearance? Deep-buried prejudices surface when Inspector Walsh and Sergeant McLaughlin delve into private lives and secret passions to discover the killer of a man long since cold . . .

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