- Beneath
- the
- blistering
- sun,
- a
- village
- sleeps.
In
- a
- dark
- place,
- a
- woman
- is
- ritually
- murdered.
Hallbury
- will
- remember
- the
- day
- Joseph
- Palliser
- came
- home.
Emma
- who
- loves
- Joe
- would
- discard
- her
- marriage
- to
- be
- with
- him;
- the
- furiously
- independent
- Sophie
- could
- so
- easily
- fall
- victim
- to
- his
- feckless
- appetite.
- But
- Joe
- has
- secrets
- neither
- will
- know,
- and
- he
- has
- only
- to
- turn
- over
- a
- stone
- or
- two
- to find
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