A detective arrives with a murder on his neck and a skeleton in the closet...

The body of a brutally murdered twelve-year-old girl, discovered near an archaeological site, brings a pair of investigators from Dublin to the Irish town of Knocknaree. There is no shortage of suspects in this case. That someone would try to prevent the planned construction of the highway? Or was the promising future of a talented ballerina lying in someone's stomach? What if the killer didn't kill the first time? Twenty years ago, two children disappeared for good in a nearby forest, and this unexplained tragedy weighs on the heart and mind of detective Rob Ryan, who has a new case to deal with with his colleague Cassie. The missing children were his best friends, but he returned from the forest then, unlike them. And so now they are actually solving two cases...

The debut, which won the author a number of awards, including the E. A. Poe Award for the best first novel, became the first volume of a successful book series and the model for the crime series Dublin Murders.

Length of recording: 20 hours 38 minutes

Read by Petr Jeništa