内容简介：
A curious gardeneras discovery in Grasmere of letters bearing upon Coleridge has consequences he canat anticipate, one of them his fatal fall in the nearby mountains. Ten years later along the southland coast of California, those consequences are still unfolding. To Bea Ellis reconstructing what has happened, only a handful of people are in a position to know of that earlier incident. Visiting her niece Marcy Lindgren, she is surprised when Inspector Grimm calls on her concerning Emmit Pratt, whose body has washed ashore at the base of a sandstone cliff not far from the Lindgren house. That Pratt was last seen at a concert attended by Marcy, Bea, and her stepson Brian puts them in a company that almost certainly includes the one who helped Pratt, too, fall to his death.