About the book

Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into a private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation and the beginning of a new life. But won't leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder, and later a second death, which raises far more complicated problems than merely the question of innocence or guilt . . . 'An exercise in impeccable detection.' New York Times 'James's skill as a yarn-spinner gives plenty of suspense to this intriguing mystery.' Financial Times