![]() And as she sidles in on the briefing she learns that the victim, a banker from London worth millions, is more closely linked to her than she could have imagined. Five months pregnant, in pursuit of a work-life balance rather than romantic love, she’s focused on being a good mother to her two children: her adopted twelve-year-old son, Fly Dent, and the new baby.īut the man died just yards from the police station where she works, so Manon can’t help taking an interest. ![]() He dies where he falls, cradled by a stranger, a woman’s name on his lips in his last seconds of life.ĭetective Manon Bradshaw handles only cold cases. “ Steiner populates this hot-button narrative with achingly human characters, but no one compares to the hormonal, mordantly funny mom-cop who will stop at nothing to save her son.”- People (Book of the Week)Īs dusk falls, a young man staggers through a park, far from home, bleeding from a stab wound. In this brilliant crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed, a detective investigates her most personal case yet: a high-profile murder in which her own family falls under suspicion. ![]()
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