A baffling murder on a remote country lane puts Alan Banks and his team to the test in the detective's most intense and gripping case yet--from an author hailed by Louise Penny as ``a writer at the top of his game.`` With Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigating a young woman's death, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Banks finds himself taking on the coldest of cases: a fifty-year-old assault allegedly per-petrated by beloved celebrity Danny Caxton. Now Caxton stands accused at the center of a media storm, and it's Banks's job to discover the shocking truth. As more women step forward with accounts of Caxton's manipulation, Banks must piece together decades-old evidence -- while the investigation leads him down the darkest of paths. . . . Suspenseful, powerful, and surprising, When the Music's Over is the finest novel to date from one of the foremost suspense writers at work today.