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Those who watch murder mysteries chiefly in order to savor the dark desolation which some of them bring to life will be overjoyed at this grim tale, which follows the attempts of an obsessed policeman to solve the serial killings of little girls even after he has been taken off the case. Most of the girls were killed in the woods, and the officer spends much of his time in them attempting to recreate the murders in his own imagination so as to understand them and perhaps solve them. Little comes of his efforts, but the sad mood of the blackened, wintery woods is strongly evoked.