\'WALKER\'S FINEST YET ... A FIRST-RATE MYSTERY\' - Entertainment WeeklyBruno, Chief of Police, investigates when a body is found floating in the river showing marks of Satanism. France\'s favourite cop must track down a murderer while quelling his town\'s superstitious fears in this page-turning mystery, part of an internationally bestselling series.It is springtime France\'s Perigord, a time of beauty and calm. But not for Bruno, chief of police of the small town of St Denis. A woman\'s body has been found on a boat, bearing signs of a black magic ritual. Bruno has too much on his plate as it is - mediating a domestic abuse case that needs careful handling and a dodgy local development proposal that seems just too good to be true. But a murder case must take precedent and the roots of this one lie buried deep in the past - linked to a chateau above a bend in the river, to the reclusive old woman who lives there, and to the secret hidden in the Devil\'s Cave.