Suspended from duty after her last case ended in the high-profile arrest of one of Britain's wealthiest men, DC Constance Fairchild is trying to stay away from the limelight. But fate has other ideas ... Coming home to her London flat, Constance stumbles across a young man, bloodied, mutilated and barely alive. She calls him in and is quickly thrown into the middle of a nationwide investigation. From one of Britain's biggest crime writers.