First published 2015
Chief Inspector Louisa Smith receives two urgent calls as autumn arrives. Her team discovers a young woman's bloodied corpse at a remote farm. The same morning brings news of another woman who drove her car into a ravine in what appears to be suicide. Smith and her officers begin collecting evidence from both scenes. The investigation slowly reveals connections between the deaths. As the team pieces together witness statements and forensic clues, a picture emerges of the final night that claimed both lives. Smith must determine whether coincidence or something darker brought these women together. The case forces her to reconstruct the events that led two separate lives to end on the same tragic evening. Each piece of evidence brings Smith closer to understanding how fate intertwined their final hours.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary, detective, psychological-thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: Africa
Period: Autumn
448 pages · Paperback · Cargo
Content warnings: death, suicide