Paperback. Pub Date :2013-02-14 Pages: 464 Language: English Publisher: Pan Books A dedicated man is dead in the Yorkshire dales - a former university professor. wealthy historian and archaeologist who loved his adopted village. It is a particularly heinous slaying. considering the esteem in which the victim. Harry Steadman. was held by his neighbors and colleagues - by everyone. it seems. except the one person who bludgeoned the life out of the respected scholar and left him half-buried in a farmers field.Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks left the violence of London behind for what he hoped would be the peaceful life of a country policeman. But the brutality of Steadmans murder only reinforces one ugly. indisputable truth: that evil can flourish in even the most bucolic of settings. There are dangerous secrets hidden in the history of this remote Yorkshire community that...