A quiet town lost among the fields of the Midwest… For decades, deadly boredom reigned here. But now a mysterious murder has taken place.
The monstrously mutilated body of a young woman — a “black archaeologist” — is found in a circle cleared in the middle of a cornfield. And — strangely enough — the body is surrounded by dead crows impaled on Indian arrows.
The work of a maniac? The murder scene practically screams it. And the local sheriff is completely convinced of it. But the experienced FBI agent Pendergast puts forward his own — almost unbelievable — version of what happened.
A version based on a ridiculous and terrifying local legend…