On the day of the murder, the sky over Slaughterford was low and the ground fell with heavy rain, the first for several weeks. Death was not a novelty in this quiet village, as elsewhere. But such senseless cruelty has never been seen here before. And who knows, whether this tragedy will not be just the beginning - the first link in a series of many? a whimsical pattern of fate, and through the patina of time, living pictures of a bygone era begin to appear. “Hidden Places” was published in 2017 and stood on a par with the best novels by Katherine Webb, which won the popularity and love of readers all over the world: “Inheritance”, “Half-Forgotten Love Song”, “The English Girl”, etc. For the first time in Russian language!