New York Times bestseller Deborah Crombie returns with a gripping police procedural (Washington
Post) 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.
