It begins with a slap in the face.
Out walking his St Bernard, Tony Carcano is confronted by a girl on a motorbike who shows him a photograph from his past as a cub reporter. Of him posing with the body of a young woman. Smiling.
‘Why were you laughing?’
It’s not the last Tony will see of Sybille Knapp, an orphan whose mother drowned herself in the Kreuzwirt lake in 1999. That was the official verdict. Before long, Tony, a bestselling writer, is turning his imagination to working out what really happened.
But Kreuzwirt is home to a sullen, silent community, loyal to the powerful Perkman family, who will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried. And there are other forces at work in this valley. Stories of an ancient evil. Whispers of a figure who stands between this world and the next.
The Wanderer sings and his song is the wind. . .
Bestselling writer Luca D’Andrea has concocted a fearsome witches’ brew of myth, memory and mayhem.