<p><b><font>"A beguiling read . . . A cold-case whodunnit [and] a <i>Shadow of the Wind</i>-style quest" - John Dugdale,<i> Sunday Times</i></b><b></font></b><br><br><b><font>"Bestselling writer Luca D''Andrea has concocted a fearsome witches'' brew of myth, memory and mayhem"</b><b><i>Sunday Times Crime Club</i></font></b><br><br><b>A haunting thriller drawing on myths, legends and fairy tales, set in a mysterious Italian valley - from Italy''s bestselling answer to Stephen King.</b><br><br><b>"D''Andrea piles on the action and the atmosphere with the panache of a seasoned writer" Marcel Berlins, <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><br><b>It begins with a slap in the face.</b><br><br>Out walking his St Bernard, Tony Carcano is confronted by a girl on a motorbike who shows him a photograph from his past. Of him posing with the body of a young woman. Smiling.<br><br>"Why were you <i>laughing</i>?"<br><br>It''s not the last Tony sees of Sybille Knapp, an orphan whose mother d