About the book: 1948 / Residents of an English province spend their days gossiping about their neighbors, serenely dancing to the music of the wind and only dreaming of exciting adventures. And suddenly - a brutal, heartbreaking murder! A random witness manages to catch a glimpse of the hand of the criminal, squeezing a young woman with a ring-shaped earring in the icy grip of death. However, for some mysterious reasons, she hides the main details of the crime from the investigation. The search for the killer would have dragged on for many years if a mysterious story about a kidnapping that happened in France many years ago had not surfaced in the case....