The picturesque village of Mauthen Barbary offered weary Londoners a quiet retreat...until elderly Charles Griffin and his dog, Chloe, accidentally dug up the ancient statue of Our Lady of Promise. Overnight the little Norfolk town acquired busloads of prayerful pilgrims, chanting virgins clad in blue, a chapel lit by flickering candles—and a corpse. Someone had brutally murdered a saintly young woman at the very foot of the Virgin’s shrine. It was up to Inspector Ben Jutnet to solve this cleverly difficult case. There were just three clues to the killer: a dying swan, a stolen crucifix, and a gold cross clutched in the dead girl’ hand.