A drought and dropping water table have brought Dendale’s ruins into view. And a little girl has gone missing from a nearby village. Helped by Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, an older, fatter, and wiser Dalziel has a second chance to uncover the secrets of a drowned valley and three missing girls from the past. The identity of a killer rests on what one child saw . . . and what another, now grown, fears with all her heart to remember . . .