About the book: 1995 / Vile things are happening in the village of Medmelton: an unsolved villainous murder committed a year ago, and now a series of strange and very disturbing events that are associated with the growing in the churchyard by the Tree of Lazarus. To get to the bottom of the truth, Maltravers has to remove many layers of lies, but the revealed secret carries the threat of creepy and terrible consequences. The novel “The Tree of Lazarus” is a true discovery of a modern British detective story.