An atmospheric and gripping novel from an exciting new voice for fans of "The Snow Child" and "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared"

South-West Germany, 1926. The disappearance of a baby girl calls for Constable Theodore Hildebrandt and his son Klaus to visit the remote village of Hindelheim, a place where nothing ever happens. But the news of the missing baby has brought darkness to the community. It is as if someone or something wicked is playing a game. As the wind blows and the mist thickens, tensions rise among the villagers as everyone falls under...