Included in Publishers Weekly’s Top Mystery/Thrillers of 2016. When Roger Sheridan moves into his ancestral home in the village of Lightwood with his young wife Patricia, she soon starts to read the diary of Lavinia, whose fiancé died in impossible circumstances there a century before, strangled under a twisted tree in virgin snow. The tree is said to cover the grave of a witch who murdered young children. While Patricia tries to solve the ancient murder by reading the diary, someone starts murdering young children again and Patricia starts having nightmares where she sees the cursed tree killing Lavinia’s fiancé… It is left to Dr. Twist to unravel the horrors, old and new. This is LRI’s twelfth Paul Halter translation.