**Oxford private detective Zoë Boehm turns up dead in Newcastle,
launching her friend Sarah Tucker into an investigation with several
leads--but no one she can trust.
**
When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to
Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private
detective Zoë Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises
further questions. Did Zoë kill herself, or did one of her old cases
come back to haunt her? Why was she wearing the jacket a murderer had
stolen years before? And what's brought Sarah's former sparring partner
Gerard Inchon to the same broken-down hotel where she's staying?
Coincidence is an excuse that soon appears pretty unconvincing. Sarah
can't leave until she's found the answers to her questions, however
dangerous they might turn out to be.