Lord Brocktree Jonathan Cape Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead

hard-worked destroyer and her company of men

'A love letter to stories - and to everyone silenced or forgotten in their retelling

Du Maurier's REBECCA meets WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN and GONE GIRL in this intimate tale of a terrible crime

Aboard are the heirs of the twelve provinces of Concordia

Lord Brocktree Jonathan Cape Commander Adam Dalgliesh is alreadySalamandastron, ancestral home of the Badger Lords is under threat from an enemy whose power is absolute and whose evil knows no bounds. Ungatt Trunn can make the stars fall from the sky, the very earth shake underfoot, and with a horde of vermin as numerous as the leaves in autumn, the wildcat appears unstoppable. The mountain's defences are weak. Who can save it now? Salamandastron's only hope is a badger, Lord Brocktree who is drawn to the fortress