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Pretty Dead Things (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 10)

Author : Barbara Nadel
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 0755378938
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book Pretty Dead Things (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 10) written by Barbara Nadel and published by Headline. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When peace and love turn into deadly conflict... Inspector Ikmen and Inspector Sulleymen uncover the dark legacies of Istanbul's past in Pretty Dead Things, the tenth chilling thriller from the Inspector Ikmen series. Barbara Nadel will impress fans of Andrea Camilleri and Jason Goodwin. 'Riveting... Nadel takes us far beneath the surface of the city's ancient streets... A heady and stunningly exciting take on the crime genre' - Lancashire Evening Post When Emine Aksu, the flamboyant wife of an Istanbul style guru, suddenly goes missing, Inspector Cetin Ikmen's investigation leads him deep into her strange and colourful past. Emine was a hippie when she was younger, who wholeheartedly enjoyed the liberated lifestyle that swept across the city when the western Europeans flooded into Istanbul in the sixties. According to her husband, Emine never really left behind the free love pleasures she discovered back then and he suspects she was visiting an old friend at the time of her disappearance. Meanwhile, Inspector Mehmet Suleyman is called to a terrifying scene at the art deco Kamondo Stairs in the old banking district of Karakoy. The skeleton of a woman has been discovered in one of the large plant containers. Could these two bizarre incidents be linked? What readers are saying about Pretty Dead Things: 'A well planned novel with a mixture of the politics and social history of Istanbul as a background to a thrilling mystery starring Inspector Ikmen' 'The plot is one of her [Barbara Nadel's] best and her characters [...] have become fully fleshed individuals by this point in the series'

The Ottoman Cage

Author : Barbara Nadel
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466861576
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Ottoman Cage written by Barbara Nadel and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Nadel's The Ottoman Cage is a spicy thriller set in Istanbul's back alleys. Inspector Cetin Ikmen and forensic pathologist Arto Sarkissian have been friends since childhood, and their work together in Istanbul's criminal justice system has only served to cement their friendship. When they're both called to a flat to investigate the death of a twenty-year-old, there is no reason to think their relationship will alter. The case, however, is a strange one. Ikmen learns from the neighbours that they have never seen the man enter or leave the flat. The only visitor they're aware of is a solitary, well-dressed Armenian. Stranger still is that the limbs of the body are withered, and the victim seems to have been kept prisoner inside a gilded cage. What is it that's making Ikmen's old friend Arto, himself an Armenian, especially uncomfortable about the case?

Forfeit (Ikmen Mystery 23)

Author : Barbara Nadel
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472273508
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Forfeit (Ikmen Mystery 23) written by Barbara Nadel and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GREED, LUST AND BETRAYAL LEAD TO MURDER in Barbara Nadel's twenty-third Ikmen mystery, as Ikmen and Süleyman work to uncover a tragic tale of dark secrets and double lives... In the early hours of the morning, Turkish TV star Erol Gencer is found dead at his home on the outskirts of Istanbul. But he is not alone. Beside him lies a Syrian refugee whose stomach has been split open with a cheese knife. Did Gencer kill his guest before committing suicide, or are they victims of a sinister double murder? The dead Syrian is soon identified as Wael Al Hussain, whose wife, Samira, is in prison for attempting to kill Gencer a year ago. At the time, no one believed Samira's story that Gencer's wife had planned the attack, but now Samira's sister begs Çetin Ikmen to re-examine her claim. Meanwhile, Inspector Mehmet Süleyman is on leave with his teenage son, Patrick, who is visiting from Ireland, but when Detective Kerim Gürsel's transsexual ex-lover, Pembe, is also murdered, shortly after confessing that Wael Al Hussain had used her for sexual favours, Süleyman knows he must help Kerim solve this complex case. Entering a world of the Syrian diaspora, where tales of mythical storytellers abound, Ikmen and Süleyman uncover a tragic tale of dark secrets and double lives where nothing is at it seems...

Belshazzar's Daughter

Author : Barbara Nadel
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466869283
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Belshazzar's Daughter written by Barbara Nadel and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spicy thriller set in Istanbul's back alleys that the Literary Review (UK) called "exciting, accomplished and original". When a brutal murder shocks Istanbul's rundown Jewish quarter, the Turkish police force unleashes their best weapon - the chain-smoking, brandy-swilling Inspector Cetin Ikmen, husband to a strict Muslim woman (who disapproves of his drinking) and loving father of eight (with another on the way). With a colorful, multi-layered setting and a delicious labyrinthine plot, Barbara Nadel's Belshazzar's Daughter is a stunning and evocative crime debut, and Inspector Ikmen will surely join the ranks of beloved foreign cops Aureilo Zen and Guido Brunetti.

The Monster in the Box

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439150338
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Monster in the Box written by Ruth Rendell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author called the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world ("Time") comes her newest novel featuring Inspector Wexford.

Petrified (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 6)

Author : Barbara Nadel
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0755378563
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book Petrified (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 6) written by Barbara Nadel and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series, out now. Madness, obsession and a curiously preserved corpse in Istanbul... Petrified is the sixth dark and gripping mystery from the Inspector Ikmen series by the hugely talented crime writer, Barbara Nadel. Perfect for fans of Donna Leon and Jason Goodwin. 'Atmospheric, skilfully written and well plotted' - Time Out Summer in Istanbul is hot. The kind of heat that can drive even the sanest people a little crazy... An elderly woman is found dead in a flat with the perfectly preserved body of a young man. In an ancient part of the Jewish quarter, two children are missing. Their father, an artist whose genius borders on insanity, only seems more driven in his work. And a raid on a Russian gangster yields nothing except the dead body of a girl he claims is his daughter. Could the connection to all cases lie in a macabre forgotten art? But Inspector Cetin Ikmen's worries aren't just work-related. His protégé, Suleyman, is going dangerously off the rails, threatening to compromise not just himself, but months of painstaking investigation. Ikmen faces a complex case which threatens to rock the very fabric of Turkish society. What readers are saying about Petrified: 'A well-crafted interplay of stories - absolutely fascinating' 'An intriguing mystery that impresses for its descriptions of life within multicultural Istanbul and its characters' 'The theme and characters stayed with me for days after I had read this book'

To Love and Be Wise

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 2385086204
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book To Love and Be Wise written by Josephine Tey and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty and sophisticated mystery featuring bestselling author Josephine Tey's popular Inspector Alan Grant, a beloved character created by a woman considered to be one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.Literary sherry parties were not Alan Grant's cup of tea. But when the Scotland Yard Inspector arrived to pick up actress Marta Hallard for dinner, he was struck by the handsome young American photographer, Leslie Searle. Author Lavinia Fitch was sure her guest "must have been something very wicked in ancient Greece," and the art colony at Salcott St. Mary would have agreed. Yet Grant heard nothing more of Searle until the news of his disappearance. Had Searle drowned by accident or could he have been murdered by one of his young women admirers? Was it a possible case of suicide or had the photographer simply vanished for reasons of his own?

On the Bone (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 18)

Author : Barbara Nadel
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 1472213815
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book On the Bone (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 18) written by Barbara Nadel and published by Headline. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series, out now. In Istanbul - the golden city on the Bosphorus - ancient myths and modern evils are at work... On the Bone is the eighteenth novel in the brilliant Istanbul crime thriller series starring Inspector Cetin Ikmen, 'the Morse of Istanbul' (Daily Telegraph), from Barbara Nadel. Perfect for fans of Donna Leon and Lindsey Davis. 'Nadel's evocation of the shady underbelly of modern Turkey is one of the perennial joys of crime fiction' - Mail on Sunday On a buzzing street in the fashionable district of Beyoglu, a young man drops dead. Ümit Kavas's death was natural but the autopsy betrays a shocking truth: his last meal was human flesh. Under desperate pressure from their superiors, Inspector Cetin Ikmen and his colleague Mehmet Süleyman begin their most obscure investigation yet. How did Ümit Kavas, apparently a good, liberal man, come to partake in the greatest taboo of all? Did he act alone? And who was his victim? Soon they find themselves embroiled in a dark web of underground worlds: of Turkey's old secular elite; a community of squatters; and a new gastronomy scene breaking every boundary. But where does the truth lie? What readers are saying about On the Bone: 'Combines beautifully honed storytelling and fascinating insights into life in Istanbul' 'One of her best yet' 'Fascinating in its depiction of the changed Turkish political landscape, and how that change affects the people of Istanbul from all walks of life, from the rich to the poor, the transsexuals to the young married couples, the police departments to the military'

Green Dolphin Country

Author : Elizabeth Goudge
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 147365632X
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Green Dolphin Country written by Elizabeth Goudge and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Breathtaking...A long vista of undulating story, with here and there peaks of volcanic excitement' Daily Telegraph A haunting love story set between the Channel Islands and New Zealand in the 19th century. When young William Ozanne arrives on their island, sisters Marianne and Marguerite Le Patourel are both captivated. But it is tall, beautiful Marguerite who catches his eye. Years later, William leaves the island for a life at sea, eventually settling across the ocean in New Zealand. Impulsively, he invites Marguerite to join him there, but a slip of the pen results in Marianne making the journey instead. As Marguerite deals with a broken heart and the loss of her sister, Marianne must make a new life in a strange land, with a man who respects her but loves another. Can she persuade William that he chose the right sister, after all? The inspiration behind the Academy Award winning film Green Dolphin Street (1947). What readers are saying about GREEN DOLPHIN COUNTRY 'Fantastic' - 5 STARS 'A beautiful and unusual love story' - 5 STARS 'Full of twists and turns and beautifully written as always' - 5 STARS 'A wonderful story' - 5 STARS 'A magical story with characters that leap out from the page' - 5 STARS

The Diary of a Social Butterfly

Author : Moni Mohsin
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184002211
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Diary of a Social Butterfly written by Moni Mohsin and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pakistan may be making headlines—but Butterfly is set to conquer the world. ‘Everyone knows me. All of Lahore, all of Karachi, all of Isloo—oho, baba, Islamabad —half of Dubai, half of London and all of Khan Market and all the nice, nice bearers in Imperial Hotel also...No ball, no party, no dinner, no coffee morning, no funeral, no GT —Get-Together, baba—is complete without me.’ Meet Butterfly, Pakistan’s most lovable, silly, socialite. An avid partygoer, inspired misspeller, and unwittingly acute observer of Pakistani high society, Butterfly is a woman like no other. In her world, SMS becomes S & M and people eat ‘three tiara cakes’ while shunning ‘do number ka maal’. ‘What cheeks!’ as she would say. As her country faces tribulations – from 9/11 to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto—Butterfly glides through her world, unfazed, untouched, and stopped short only by the chip in her manicure. Wicked, irreverent, and hugely entertaining, The Diary of a Social Butterfly gives you a delicious glimpse into the parallel universe of the have-musts.

Rashomon Gate

Author : Ingrid J. Parker
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312287986
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Rashomon Gate written by Ingrid J. Parker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-07-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning writer Parker brings ancient Japan to life in a tale of blackmail and murder among high-ranking nobles. 10 illustrations.

The Dante Club

Author : Matthew Pearl
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588363104
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The Dante Club written by Matthew Pearl and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Before The Dante Chamber, there was The Dante Club: “an ingenious thriller that . . . brings Dante Alighieri’s Inferno to vivid, even unsettling life.”—The Boston Globe “With intricate plots, classical themes, and erudite characters . . . what’s not to love?”—Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Origin Boston, 1865. The literary geniuses of the Dante Club—poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. T. Fields—are finishing America’s first translation of The Divine Comedy. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard College are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing the infiltration of foreign superstitions to be as corrupting as the immigrants arriving at Boston Harbor. But as the members of the Dante Club fight to keep a sacred literary cause alive, their plans fall apart when a series of murders erupts through Boston and Cambridge. Only this small group of scholars realizes that the gruesome killings are modeled on the descriptions of Hell’s punishments from Dante’s Inferno. With the lives of the Boston elite and Dante’s literary future in the New World at stake, the members of the Dante Club must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret. Praise for The Dante Club “Ingenious . . . [Matthew Pearl] keeps this mystery sparkling with erudition.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Not just a page-turner but a beguiling look at the U.S. in an era when elites shaped the course of learning and publishing. With this story of the Dante Club’s own descent into hell, Mr. Pearl’s book will delight the Dante novice and expert alike.”—The Wall Street Journal “[Pearl] ably meshes the . . . literary analysis with a suspenseful plot and in the process humanizes the historical figures. . . . A divine mystery.”—People (Page-turner of the Week) “An erudite and entertaining account of Dante’s violent entrance into the American canon.”—Los Angeles Times “A hell of a first novel . . . The Dante Club delivers in spades. . . . Pearl has crafted a work that maintains interest and drips with nineteenth-century atmospherics.”—San Francisco Chronicle

The Detour

Author : Gerbrand Bakker
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446450341
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Detour written by Gerbrand Bakker and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZE 'A wonderful novel. Wise and generous to a fault of all our human failings and frailties' Lloyd Jones, author of Mister Pip A Dutch woman rents a remote farm in rural Wales. She says her name is Emilie. She has left her husband, having confessed to an affair. In Amsterdam, her stunned husband forms a strange partnership with a detective who agrees to help him trace her. They board the ferry to Hull on Christmas Eve. Back on the farm, a young man out walking with his dog injures himself and stays the night, then ends up staying longer. Yet something is deeply wrong. Does he know what he is getting himself into? And what will happen when her husband and the detective arrive?

The House of Four (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 19)

Author : Barbara Nadel
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 1472234669
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book The House of Four (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 19) written by Barbara Nadel and published by Headline. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series, out now. A family built on lies, secrets and murder... The House of Four is a gripping Istanbul crime thriller featuring Inspector Ikmen, 'the Morse of Istanbul' (Daily Telegraph) from Barbara Nadel. Perfect for fans of Donna Leon and Jason Goodwin. 'Impeccable mystery plotting, exotic and atmospheric' - Guardian Everyone in the Istanbul neighbourhood of Moda knows the Devil's House. A crumbling Ottoman mansion, and once the home of a princess, it is a place associated with ill fortune. The princess's four children, now in old age, still live in separate apartments on different floors and are rumoured never to speak to each other. Then one of them is found dead, stabbed through the heart, and it is discovered that the other three siblings have met an identical fate. There is no sign of forced entry or burglary, and all evidence must be gained from letters and diaries, but as Inspector Ikmen digs into their past it becomes clear they have been harbouring a secret... Meanwhile a young couple are arrested for a series of seemingly random killings on the streets of Istanbul. They claim to have been squatting in the Devil's House. But this fiendish mystery is far from over and it will take Inspector Ikmen to the darkest and most devilish depths of this ancient city What readers are saying about The House of Four: 'The book really brings the colourful and diverse nature of Istanbul alive' 'I have found the whole series compulsive reading and this is one of the best' 'So evocative it makes me long to sit and watch life in the most fascinating city'

Pretty Dead Things (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 10)

Author : Barbara Nadel
Publisher : Inspector Ikmen Mystery
ISBN 13 : 9780755335633
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Pretty Dead Things (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 10) written by Barbara Nadel and published by Inspector Ikmen Mystery. This book was released on 2008-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Emine Aksu, the flamboyant wife of an Istanbul style guru, suddenly goes missing, Inspector Cetin Ikmen's investigation leads him deep into her strange and colourful past. Emine was a hippie when she was younger, who wholeheartedly enjoyed the liberated lifestyle that swept across Istanbul in the sixties. Her husband suspects that she was visiting an old friend at the time of her disappearance. Meanwhile, Inspector Mehmet Suleyman is called to a terrifying scene at the art deco Kamondo Stairs in the old banking district of Karakoy. The skeleton of a woman has been discovered in one of the large plant containers. Could these two bizarre incidents be linked?

Full Dark House

Author : Christopher Fowler
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553900412
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Full Dark House written by Christopher Fowler and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting mystery series starring two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the London Police Department's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler tells the story of both their first and last case—and how along the way the unlikely pair of crime fighters changed the face of detection. A present-day bombing rips through London and claims the life of eighty-year-old detective Arthur Bryant. For his partner John May, it means the end of a partnership that lasted over half-a-century and an eerie echo back to the Blitz of World War II when they first met. Desperately searching for clues to the killer’s identity, May finds his old friend’s notes of their very first case and becomes convinced that the past has returned . . . with a killing vengeance. It begins when a dancer in a risque new production of Orpheus in Hell is found without her feet. Suddenly, the young detectives are plunged in a bizarre gothic mystery that will push them to their limits—and beyond. For in a city shaken by war, a faceless killer is stalking London's theaters, creating his own kind of sinister drama. And it will take Arthur Bryant’s unorthodox techniques and John May’s dogged police work to catch a criminal whose ability to escape detection seems almost supernatural—a murderer who even decades later seems to have claimed the life of one of them . . . and is ready to claim the other. Filled with startling twists, unforgettable characters, and a mystery that will keep you guessing, Full Dark House is a witty, heartbreaking, and all-too-human thriller about the hunt for an inhuman killer.

Garden of Lamentations

Author : Deborah Crombie
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062271652
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Garden of Lamentations written by Deborah Crombie and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are drawn into separate investigations that hold disturbing—and deadly—complications for their own lives in this powerful mystery in the bestselling series. On a beautiful morning in mid-May, the body of a young woman is found in one of Notting Hill’s private gardens. To passersby, the pretty girl in the white dress looks as if she’s sleeping. But Reagan Keating has been murdered, and the lead detective, DI Kerry Boatman, turns to Gemma James for help. She and Gemma worked together on a previous investigation, and Gemma has a personal connection to the case: Reagan was the nanny of a child who attends the same dance studio as Toby, Gemma and Kincaid’s son. Gemma soon discovers that Reagan’s death is the second tragedy in this exclusive London park; a few months before, a young boy died in a tragic accident. But when still another of the garden residents meets a violent end, it becomes clear that there are more sinister forces at play. Boatman and Gemma must stop the killer before another innocent life is taken. While his wife is consumed with her new case, Kincaid finds himself plagued by disturbing questions about several previous—and seemingly unrelated—cases involving members of the force. If his suspicions are correct and the crimes are linked, are his family and friends in mortal danger as well? Kincaid’s hunch turns to certainty when a Metropolitan Police officer close to him is brutally attacked. There’s a traitor in the ranks, and now Kincaid wonders if he can trust anyone. As Gemma begins to see a solution to her case, she realizes she holds a child’s fate in her hands. Can she do the right thing? And can Kincaid rely on his friends, both inside and outside the Scotland Yard force, to stand beside him as he faces the deadliest challenge of his career?