It was, Adam Dalgliesh thought, uncommonly inconsiderate, if not negligent, of his doctors to reconsile him so thoroughly to death and then change their minds. Unsetteled by this brush with death and disenchanted with his job with the Force, Commander Adam Dalgliesh responds to an ivitation to visit an old family friend, the chaplain at a private home for the disabled in Dorset. Only to discover on his arrival at Toynton Grange that his host has died suddenly... Other deaths follow and a grim sense of foreboding grips Dalgliesh as he moves among the inhabitants of the enclosed community. What had been founded as an abode of love is rapidly a staging post for death.
