Brighton 1957. Mirabelle Bevan can't resist a cry for help be it the little girl at a seaside sanatorium who is getting bullied or the strange behaviour of Uma the Indian nurse who is looking after her. Intrigued she soon finds herself drawn into a spider's web of connections between an upmarket brothel a local priest a man's body washed up on Brighton beach and a missing nursing sister. Attracted to a handsome police doctor Mirabelle is determined to put Jack Duggan behind her and recover from the betrayal of Superintendent Alan McGregor but the police force in Brighton is undergoing a change that keeps leading her back to the sanatorium at the epicentre of a spate of killings…

Part of the The Mirabelle Bevan Series series.