Christianna Brand

Tinka Jones needs to escape her London life and decides to visit Amista, a friend who lives in an isolated house in the Welsh hills. Stuck in a desolate house on the rain-swept hills she encounters unsettling and bizarre visitations as she sets out to unearth the mystery that surrounds Amista and the house - with chilling consequences.

When Grace Morland is found dead wearing her friend Francesca’s hat, Inspector Cockrill has to investigate a group of close friends whom he has known since their childhood. In so doing he finds that in friendship, as in so much else, there are secrets which are often best left buried.