This is a story about a series of mysterious murders that were committed quite mysteriously on one of Britain's most peaceful and peaceful islands, on Combe Island. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is assigned to investigate a murder committed in the most popular and beautiful place on the island, the Lighthouse. Combe Island is an outpost where rich and powerful people came to relax and escape their problems. The famous novelist Nathan Oliver was one of these people. He had a unique opportunity to come to the island whenever he wanted, because he was born here. At La Combe, he arrives with his daughter Miranda and his editor Dennis Tremlett, who is actually having an affair that Miranda's father has no idea about. When Olivier discovers that they are a couple, he reacts with fury and tells them to leave the island the next day. Many people on the island find Oliver a very unwelcome and unpleasant guest. The writer tries to push the director of the Combe Island Trust, Rupert Maycroft, to ensure that he can live in a cottage where the island's oldest resident, Emily Holcombe, lived. She is the only remaining member of a family that owned the island for many years. It's because he said this house was more suitable for writers. The next day, writer Nathan Oliver was found dead, hanging from the lighthouse's highest railings. Pathologist Dr. Edith Glenister determines that Oliver was strangled to death before a rope was tied around his neck and his body thrown over the lighthouse railing. The day the writer was murdered, there were twelve people on the island. They all had good reasons to murder him. Commander Adam Dalgliesh was brought to the C...... middle of paper ......ok written by Oliver in which a young girl is seduced by an older man. So it was mainly a motive for Dan to kill Oliver, because this book was written about his mother. Later, Kate and Smith discover that Oliver was Dan Padget's father. He also killed Adrian Boyde because the priest knew Padgett was not telling the truth about where he was the day Oliver was killed. It was too risky for Dan to keep Adrian alive because knowing his weakness for alcohol and his sense of honesty, he couldn't let him say that he could be a murderer. Before Kate and Francis can arrest Padgett, he takes a young staff member, Millie Tranter, hostage and threatens to throw her from the lighthouse. Kate bravely pushes herself through a narrow window to unlock the lighthouse door. She and Benton climb to the top, confront Padgett and Benton convinces him to surrender..