Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge is assigned one of the most baffling investigations of his career--a cold murder case with an unidentified victim and a cold trail with few clues to follow.
A young woman has been murdered next to a mysterious, hooded, figure-like stone, but no one recog.
Chief Inspector Brian Leslie, a respected colleague of Ian Rutledge\'s, is sent to Avebury, a village set inside a great prehistoric stone circle not far from Stonehenge.
Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge is assigned one of the most baffling investigations of his career--a cold murder case with an unidentified victim and a cold trail with few clues to follow