Combe Island off the Cornish coast oilers rest and seclusion to over-stressed professionals who have paid the price of getting to the top. But when one of these distinguished visitors is found hanging fi-om the top of the island's lighthouse, murder not smcide is suspected.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are immediately called in: the investigation must be swift, discreet, decisive. However. Dalgliesh has his work cut out. since both residents and visitors to Combe Island guard their privacy well -- even when murder makes them a suspect. Does the islanders" reticence betray a knowledge of the crime? Another death and Dalgliesh's own life in danger throws the entire investigation into jeopardy...
