As a deep fog cloaks Dublin a young woman is found to have vanished. When Phoebe Griffin is unable to discover news of her friend Quirke fresh from drying out in an institution responds to his daughter’s request for help. But as Phoebe Quirke and Inspector Hackett speak with those who knew April they begin to realise that there may be more behind the young woman’s secrecy than they could have imagined. Why was April estranged from her powerful family the Latimers? And who is the shadowy figure who seems to be watching Phoebe’s flat at night? When Quirke makes a disturbing discovery he is finally able to begin unravelling the web of love lies and dark secrets that April spun her life from…