For a policeman, there are some questions that have to be asked even
if you don't want to know the answers . . .
A middle-aged man jumps under a tube train at Shepherd's Bush station,
and a teenage girl is killed in a hit-and-run, in a country lane
puzzlingly far from her home on the White City Estate: two unrelated
incidents which occupy DCI Bill Slider and his team during a slack
period. At least it's a change of speed after the grind of domestics,
burglaries and Community Liaison.
But links to a cold case - another dead teenager, pulled out of the
River Thames - create doubts as to whether they are indeed unrelated.
And slowly a trail of corruption and betrayal is uncovered, leading
Slider and his firm ever deeper into a morass of horror.