Traffic on Elmhirst Road has come to a halt. The police are stopping cars, searching for something. Nicki Clements waits patiently, until she glimpses a face she hoped sheβd never see again. Itβs him β and heβs the cop checking each car. Desperate to avoid him, she makes a panicky U-turn and escapes.
But Nickiβs peculiar behavior did not go unnoticed, and now the police have summoned her for questioning. A resident of Elmhirst Road has been murdered β a controversial newspaper columnist named Damon Blundy. The detectives begin peppering her with questions. Why was she seen fleeing the scene? What is her connection to the victim? Why was the knife that killed him used in such a peculiar way? Why were the words βHE IS NO LESS DEADβ painted on the wall of Blundyβs study? And what do they signify?
One simple answer could clear her. But she canβt explain why she fled Elmhirst Road that day without revealing the secret that could ruin her.
Nicki isnβt guilty of murder. But sheβs far from innocentβ¦
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