The fifth volume: Dark humor meets dark magic. Although Police Constable Peter Grant already feels uneasy when he leaves London’s skyline even a few kilometers behind, he is now sent to the deepest countryside: to a small village in Herefordshire - where foxes, hares, and the village policeman say goodnight to each other. But two children are missing, and their disappearance may have occurred under magical circumstances. So Peter is reluctantly forced to leave his familiar habitat. Together with the river daughter Beverley Brook, he bravely heads west, into rural England...