Harper
March 2010
On Sale: February 23, 2010
Featuring: Annie Cabbot; Alan Banks
416 pages ISBN: 0061362948 EAN: 9780061362941 Mass Market Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
In a world of terror and uncertainty, what does one small
death matter?
The body hanging from a tree in a peaceful wood appears to
Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot to be a suicide. Further
investigation into the sad demise of Mark Hardcastle, the
set designer for the local amateur theater company, leads to
the corpse of Mark's older, wealthier lover, brutally
bludgeoned to death.
Suddenly the case demands the attention of Chief Inspector
Alan Banks, called back from his vacation even though
nothing suggests this wasn't a crime of passion followed by
remorse and self-destruction. But machinations within the
shadow world of secret government only add to the colors of
darkness already shading this troubling affair. And a
stubborn policeman who will not be frightened away could
lose everything in one terrifying, explosive instant.