New York Times bestseller Deborah Crombie returns with a new novel featuring Scotland Yard
detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James as they race to solve the shocking murder of a young
woman before panic spreads across London. On a rainy November evening trainee doctor Sasha
Johnson hurries through the evening crowd in London's historic Russell Square. Out of the
darkness someone jostles her as they brush past. A moment later Sasha stumbles then
collapses. When Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his sergeant Doug Cullen are
called to the scene they discover that she's been stabbed. Kincaid immediately calls in his
detective wife Gemma James who has recently been assigned to a task force on knife crimes
which are on the rise. Along with her partner detective sergeant Melody Talbot Gemma aids the
investigation. But Sasha Johnson doesn't fit the profile of the task force's typical knife
crime victim. Single successful career-driven she has no history of abusive relationships or
any connection to gangs. Sasha had her secrets though and some of them lead the detectives
uncomfortably close to home. As the team unravels the victim's tangled connections another
murder raises the stakes. Kincaid Gemma and their colleagues must put even friendships on the
line to find the killer stalking the dark streets of Bloomsbury.
