Chief Inspector Banks returns in Number One bestselling Peter Robinson's new crime novel. A beautiful June day is shattered by the discovery of a man's body, hanging from a tree. Everything points to suicide, but DI Cabbott's investigation quickly leads to another shattering discovery, and DCI Banks is called in. Banks soon finds himself plunged into a shadow-world where secrets and deceit are the norm, and where murder is seen as the solution to a problem. The deeper he digs the more he discovers that the monster he has awakened will extend its deadly reach to his friends and family.