About the book

A shocking reveal threatens to unravel Detective Superintendent Roy Grace's happy new life. Grace is newly married, having moved to a country cottage with Cleo and their baby son. But his first, long-missing wife, now found, has left Grace a surprise greater than he could have imagined. Yet the police need Grace at work: an escaped murderer who left a bullet in him is back and a 'black widow' is leaving an international trail of corpses after - in every sense - bleeding them dry. Now, she's come to Brighton for her next rich target . . . 'Peter James is one of the best crime writers in the business' Karin Slaughter 'In my thirty-four years of policing, never have I come across a writer who so accurately depicts "The Job"' Detective Investigator Pat Lanigan, Office of the District Attorney, NYPD