New York Times bestseller Deborah Crombie returns with a new novel
featuring Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James as
they race to solve the shocking murder of a young woman before panic
spreads across London.
On a rainy November evening, trainee doctor Sasha Johnson hurries
through the evening crowd in London's historic Russell Square. Out of
the darkness, someone jostles her as they brush past. A moment later,
Sasha stumbles, then collapses. When Detective Superintendent Duncan
Kincaid and his sergeant, Doug Cullen, are called to the scene, they
discover that she's been stabbed.
Kincaid immediately calls in his detective wife, Gemma James, who has
recently been assigned to a task force on knife crimes which are on the
rise. Along with her partner, detective sergeant Melody Talbot, Gemma
aids the investigation. But Sasha Johnson doesn't fit the profile of the
task force's typical knife crime victim. Single, successful,
career-driven, she has no history of abusive relationships or any
connection to gangs. Sasha had her secrets, though, and some of them
lead the detectives uncomfortably close to home.
As the team unravels the victim's tangled connections, another murder
raises the stakes. Kincaid, Gemma, and their colleagues must put even
friendships on the line to find the killer stalking the dark streets of
Bloomsbury.
