Part of Inspector Lynley, book 11
First published 2002
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley arrives at a grim scene on a quiet London street. Eugenie Davies lies dead, struck by a car and then deliberately run over by someone who fled into the rainy autumn night. The victim carries the name of the man who discovered her body, but no other clues. Lynley's superior, Superintendent Malcolm Webberly, assigns him the case with obvious reluctance. Webberly investigated Eugenie Davies once before, over twenty years ago in his first murder case as a detective inspector. That investigation led to a sensational criminal trial. Now Webberly knows something he wants concealed, and Lynley must walk a precarious line between personal loyalty and professional duty. The case grows stranger when Lynley discovers a possible connection to a twenty-eight-year-old violin virtuoso who mysteriously lost his ability to play months earlier. Working with his longtime partners Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata, Lynley digs into a family's buried secrets. The investigation threatens not only his own career but theirs as well.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: London
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
1009 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Bantam