The corpses are those of a young man and woman. Each met death in a different fashion. Each died violently. For Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley the grisly crime promises to be one of the toughest assignments of his career. The late Nicola Maiden was the daughter of a man Lynley once regarded as his mentor. Now as Lynley struggles to find out if Nicola's killer was an enemy of her father's or one she earned herself, a disgraced Barbara Havers, determined to redeem herself, crisscrosses London seeking information on the second murder victim. And the more dark secrets Lynley and Havers uncover, the more they learn that neither the victims nor the suspects are who they appear to be.
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