She was going to die. She could feel it, her life ebbing away as surely as fine sand through fingers. France, 1963. It s a time of great change, not least for Inspector Lucas Rocco. As part of a nationwide initiative to broaden police operations, he finds himself moved from the Paris metropolis to a small village. His new patch might be rural, but it s certainly not uneventful: on his first day, he finds a murdered woman wearing a Gestapo uniform lying in a British military cemetery. When the body is removed by order of a magistrate from the police mortuary before Rocco can finish his investigation, he realizes he s up against a formidable enemy. An enemy who will go to any lengths even murder to stop his investigation."