The compelling new novel from the author of A Dance of Ghosts.
 
It's the weekend of Halloween, and PI John Craine has temporarily closed down his business and gone to stay in a rundown old hotel on Hale Island -- a small, bleak island just off the coast of Essex. He's come to Hale to get away from it all -- the memories and the guilt, and a past that just won't let go.
 
All too soon Craine stumbles across the dead body of a young girl on the beach. He calls the police, but when they arrive the body has inexplicably disappeared -- or did Craine imagine it in the first place? Determined to get to the truth, Craine starts to ask his own questions. And once more he finds himself tangled up in a deadly network of corruption, fear and violence. But it seems no one on the island is talking.