About the book: 2010 / Mysterious murders take place in the Nightingale House - an educational institution in the very center of England, where sisters of mercy are trained. An elusive criminal brutally deals with the girls conscripted alleviate the pain and suffering of others. It seems that he is trying to prove: the best cure for all diseases is death... Adam Dalgliesh will be able to stop the killer only if he can penetrate the secret world of the Nightingale House - a world of scandalous passions, sex, violence and... shame.