Minotaur Books
June 2014
On Sale: June 3, 2014
Featuring: Lacey Flint; Mark Joesbury
448 pages ISBN: 1250028582 EAN: 9781250028587 Kindle: B00H6EFCUG Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Lacey Flint, Sharon Boltonโs enigmatic protagonist, has been living in a houseboat on the River Thames, and sheโs becoming a part of Londonโs weird and wonderful riverboat community. Against her friendsโ better judgment, sheโs taken up swimming in the Thames, and she feels closer than ever to Detective Mark Joesbury, despite his involvement in a complicated undercover case. For the first time in her life, as she recovers from the trauma of the last few months, Lacey begins to feel almost happy.
Then, at dawn one hot summer morning while swimming down the river, Lacey finds the body of a shrouded young woman in the water. She assumes it was chanceโafter all, she's recently joined the marine policing unit, and she knows how many dead bodies are pulled out of the river every year, most the result of tragic accidents. But further investigation leads her policing team to suspect the womanโs body was deliberately left for Lacey to find. Laceyโs no longer a homicide detective, but as she begins to notice someone keeping a strangely close eye on her, sheโs inexorably drawn into the investigation.
Award-winning author Sharon Bolton has once again crafted a tightly plotted, utterly unpredictable thriller around one of the most compelling characters in crime fiction today, intensely private London police officer Lacey Flint, whose penchant for keeping secrets is only matched by her determination to uncover those of others.
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