Adam Dalgliesh regresa a East Anglia, donde paso su juventud, para investigar la muerte de un seminarista que estudiaba en la Universidad de Saint Anselm. El detective y poeta debera descifrar la clave que le ofrece una de las victimas para hallar al asesino. P.D. James demuestra de nuevo su habilidad para observar el comportamiento humano, construir intrigas sorprendentes y evocar los ambientes que rodean a sus personajes. / In an Anglian small theology college hangs on a precarious future. A students body is found buried in the sand. The boys influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Adam Dalgliesh, a detective who loves poetry, and having spent many summers at the school, is the perfect candidate to look for the truth in this remote, faithful, and frightened community.