The quiet market town of Mickleburgh knows very little serious crime, and local solicitor Oliver Foxton's days are occupied with wills, and the occasional drunk and disorderly.So when four local schoolboys go on a rampage in Deerton and commit a shocking act of violence, the quiet calm of these idyllic country towns is shattered.Attempting to come to terms with what has happened, Oliver immerses himself in the renovation of an old doll house belonging to his friend Prudence Wilmot, a local author, and finds that the doll inhabitants increasingly become a symbol of his own troubled marriage and the tensions the tragedy has sparked within it.And all the time another hidden menace lurks in the background as a released murderer living nearby is enthralled with the crime - and, practicing as a counselor, stands poised to offer help. Read Less