Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out thanks to the death of her former boss Kazuto Kodaka in mysterious circumstances._x000D_Keen to avoid a similar fate Wada chooses the cases she takes very carefully. A businessman who wants her to track down his estranged son offers what appears to be a straightforward assignment. But she should have known that the simplest cases are never really simple at all. Soon she finds herself pulled into a labyrinthine conspiracy with links to a twenty-seven-year-old investigation by her late employer and to the chaos and trauma of the dying days of the Second World War._x000D_As Wada uncovers a dizzying web of connections it becomes clear that someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep the past buried . . .

Part of the Umiko Wada series.