William Morrow
February 2013
On Sale: January 29, 2013
352 pages ISBN: 0062015680 EAN: 9780062015686 Kindle: B0089LOE36 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge must contend with two dangerous
enemies in this latest complex mystery in the New York Times
bestselling series
London, summer 1920. An unidentified body appears to have
been run down by a motorcar and Ian Rutledge is leading the
investigation to uncover what happened. While the signs
point to murder, vital questions remain: Who is the victim?
And where, exactly, was he killed?
One small clue leads Rutledge to a firm built by two
families, famous for producing and selling the world's best
Madeira wine. Lewis French, the current head of the English
enterprise, is missing. But is he the dead man? And does
either his fiancée or his jilted former lover have anything
to do with his disappearance—or possible death? What about
his sister? Or the London office clerk? Is Matthew Traynor,
French's cousin and partner who heads the Madeira office,
somehow involved?
The experienced Rutledge knows that suspicion and
circumstantial evidence are not proof of guilt, and he's
going to keep digging for answers. But that perseverance
will pit him against his supervisor, the new acting chief
superintendent. When Rutledge discovers a link to an
incident in the French family's past, the superintendent
dismisses it, claiming the information isn't vital. He's
determined to place the blame on one of French's women
despite Rutledge's objections. Alone in a no-man's-land rife
with mystery and danger, Rutledge must tread very carefully,
for someone has decided that he, too, must die so that cruel
justice can take its course.
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