The striking new crime novel from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and
London Times bestselling author.
When a 17-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the
case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide and
Serious Crime Unit. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesn't
know is that her new case is tied inextricably to a much larger web of
gang warfare and organized crime which infiltrates almost every aspect
of London society.
Several hundred miles away in Cornwall, Detective Inspector Trevor
Cordon is stirred from his day-to-day duties by another tragic London
fatality. Traveling to the capital and determined to establish the cause
of death and trace the deceased's daughter, Cordon becomes entangled in
a complicated situation of his own--a situation much closer to Karen's
case than either of them will ever know.
Brilliantly plotted and filled with rich, subtle characters, John
Harvey's latest novel reveals him once again as a masterful writer with
his finger firmly on the pulse of 21st-century crime.