<p>On a deserted road late at night Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge encounters a frightened woman standing over a body launching an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories in this twentieth installment of the acclaimed <em>New York Times</em> bestselling series.</p><p>Hours after his sister's wedding a restless Ian Rutledge drives aimlessly haunted by the past and narrowly misses a motorcar stopped in the middle of a desolate road. Standing beside the vehicle is a woman with blood on her hands and a dead man at her feet.</p><p>She swears she didn't kill Stephen Wentworth. A stranger stepped out in front of their motorcar and without warning fired a single shot before vanishing into the night. But there is no trace of him. And the shaken woman insists it all happened so quickly she never saw the man's face.</p><p>Although he is a witness after the fact Rutledge persuades the Yard to give him the inquiry since he's on the scene. But is he seeking justice—or fleeing painful memories in London?</p><p>Wentworth was well-liked yet his bitter family paint a malevolent portrait calling him a murderer. But who did Wentworth kill? Is his death retribution? Or has his companion lied? Wolf Pit his village has a notorious history: in Medieval times the last wolf in England was killed there. When a second suspicious death occurs the evidence suggests that a dangerous predator is on the loose and that death is closer than Rutledge knows.</p>
