Cunning...Your imagination will be frenetically flapping its wings until thevery last chapter.THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDMorse is enjoying arare if unsatisfy... » 

Cunning...Your imagination will be frenetically flapping its wings until thevery last chapter.THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDMorse is enjoying arare if unsatisfying holiday in Dorset when the first letter appears in THETIMES. A year before a stunning Swedish student disappeared from Oxfordshireleaving behind a rucksack with her identification. As the lady was dishyyoung and traveling alone the Thames Valley Police suspected foul play. Butwithout a body and with precious few clues the investigation ground to ahalt. Now it seems that someone who can hold back no longer is composing clueladen poetry that begins an enthusiastic correspondence among Englands newsreading public. Not one to be left behind Morse writes a letter of his ownand follows a twisting path through the Wytham Woods that leads to a mostshocking murder. «