Book description
Fourth in the series featuring investigative journalist Lindsay Gordon.
When union leader Tom Jack falls to his death from her bedroom window
after a spectacularly public row with Lindsay, it seems the only way to
prove her innocence is to find the real culprit.
Leaving her new home in California for a trade union conference in
Sheffield, Lindsay Gordon finds herself in the company of old friends -
and enemies, including Tom Jack. When this unethical union leader is
found dead, having catapulted out of Lindsay's tenth-floor hotel room,
she is taken in for questioning by the police.
Hoping to clear her name by finding the real killer, Lindsay searches
among hundreds of unruly union delegates for a murderer who may have
struck once before. Along the way she uncovers a seething cauldron of
blackmail, corruption and abuse of power, all brought to the boil by her
investigation. 'Neatly constructed and splendidly sarcastic about the
circus of union politics.' Daily Telegraph
'Tough, exciting, moody and unpredictable.' The Times
'Full of bitchery and backbiting, excellently done.' Literary Review
Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community and then read
English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the
last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. She is
now a full-time writer and divides her time between Cheshire and
Northumberland.
