In the posh London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable crime is
committed: A young woman is brutally raped and murdered.
Once again, that incomparable team of sleuths Inspector Thomas Pitt and
his young wife, Charlotte, set themselves against a vicious murderer. As
the elegant masks of the wellborn suspects slip, it becomes appallingly
clear that something ugly lurks behind the handsome façades of Paragon
Walk-something that may lead to more scandal, and more murder.