Book description
When Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea
with her throat cut one chilly morning, DI Annie Cabbot, on loan to
Eastern Area, gets lumbered with the case. Back in Eastvale, that same
Sunday morning, 19-year-old Hayley Daniels is found raped and
strangled in the Maze, a tangle of narrow alleys behind Eastvale's
market square, after a drunken night on the town with a group of
friends, and DCI Alan Banks is called in. Banks finds suspects galore,
while Annie seems to hit a brick wall - until she reaches a
breakthrough that spins her case in a shocking and surprising new
direction, one that also involves Banks.
Then another incident occurs in the Maze which seems to link the two
cases in a bizarre and mysterious way. As Banks and Annie dig into the
past to uncover the deeper connections, they find themselves also
dealing with the emotional baggage and personal demons of their own
relationship. And it soon becomes clear that there are two killers in
their midst, and that at any moment either one might strike again.
