Book description
Prosecutor Helen West views the whole subject with a jaundiced eye. In
this case, she doesn't even like the officer accused, the volatile and
compulsively unfaithful DS Ryan, friend of her lover, Superintendent
Bailey. Ryan maintains a stubborn silence in the face of the charge but
when the physical evidence against him proves to be unusually strong,
West and Bailey assume his guilt.
Until slowly, preoccupied as they are with their own loves and
loyalties, a different suspect begins to emerge. A man who knows the law
and how to avoid it. A man who believes that there is no such thing as
rape when the victim welcomes him. And there is no legal formula to deal
with someone who brings chocolates and flowers, leaves without a trace,
corrupts the witness with her own shame and learns to kill with impunity
. . . Frances Fyfield has spent much of her professional life
practising as a criminal lawyer, work which has informed her highly
acclaimed crime novels. She has been the recipient of both the Gold and
Silver Crime Writers' Association Daggers. She is also a regular
broadcaster on Radio 4. She lives in London and in Deal, overlooking the
sea which is her passion.
