On a deserted road, late at night, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge
encounters a frightened woman standing over a body, launching an inquiry
that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous
recesses of his own memories in this twentieth installment of the
acclaimed New York Times bestselling series.
Hours after his sister's wedding, a restless Ian Rutledge drives
aimlessly, haunted by the past, and narrowly misses a motorcar stopped
in the middle of a desolate road. Standing beside the vehicle is a woman
with blood on her hands and a dead man at her feet.
She swears she didn't kill Stephen Wentworth. A stranger stepped out in
front of their motorcar, and without warning, fired a single shot before
vanishing into the night. But there is no trace of him. And the shaken
woman insists it all happened so quickly, she never saw the man's face.
Although he is a witness after the fact, Rutledge persuades the Yard to
give him the inquiry, since he's on the scene. But is he seeking
justice--or fleeing painful memories in London?
Wentworth was well-liked, yet his bitter family paint a malevolent
portrait, calling him a murderer. But who did Wentworth kill? Is his
death retribution? Or has his companion lied? Wolf Pit, his village, has
a notorious history: in Medieval times, the last wolf in England was
killed there. When a second suspicious death occurs, the evidence
suggests that a dangerous predator is on the loose, and that death is
closer than Rutledge knows.
