![]() The priest who found young Roberta insists the girl is innocent. ![]() I'm not sorry." She has refused to speak since. Her first and only words were: "I did it. Accompanied by Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a particularly savage murder which has stunned the peaceful countryside.įat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found, clad in her best silk dress, seated in the great stone barn beside her father's decapitated corpse. Now, into this pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes New Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley. To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. So they smothered the child to silence it. But then, as the legend goes, an infant began to cry-and the villages knew they had escaped Cromwell's ravages only to be betrayed by a babe. The entire population had taken refuge in Keldale Abbey. Three hundred years ago, when Cromwell's raiders swept through a village in this valley, not a living creature was to be found on its fog-shrouded streets. ![]() ![]() A baby's cry echoes on lonely nights through Keldale Valley in Yorkshire. ![]()
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