It is springtime France's Perigord a time of beauty & calm. But not for Bruno chef de police of the small town of St Denis. A woman's body has been found on a boat bearing signs of a black magic ritual. Bruno has too much on his plate as it is
- mediating a domestic abuse case that needs careful handling & a dodgy local development proposal that seems just too good to be true. But a murder case must take precedent & the roots of this one lie buried deep in the past
- linked to a chateau above a bend in the river to the reclusive old woman who lives there & to the secret hidden in the Devil's Cave.