"Death is a hollow drum whose beat has measured out my adult
life."So writes Jay Macallan Stewart in her latest volume of
memoirs. But nobody has ever asked whether that has been by
accident or design. Nobody, that is, until Jay turns her sights on
newly-wed and freshly-widowed Magda Newsam. For Magda''s mother
Corinna is an Oxford don who knows enough of Jay''s history to be
very afraid indeed. Determined to protect her daughter, Corinna
turns to clinical psychologist Charlie Flint. But it''s not the best
time for Charlie. Her career is in ruins. Pilloried by the press,
under investigation by her peers, she''s barred from the profiling
work she loves. What Corinna''s asking may be her last chance at
redemption. But as Charlie digs into the past and its trail of
bodies she starts to realise the price of truth may be more than
she wants to pay.
關於作者:
Val McDermid has won many awards internationally, including
the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA
Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime
Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009 and is the recipient of the
CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010.