The gruesome double murder at an Eastvale property developer's luxury home should be an open and shut case for Superintendent Banks. There's a clear link to the notoriously vicious Albanian mafia. Then they find a cache of spy-cam videos hidden in the house and Annie and Gerry's investigation pivots to the rape of a young girl that could cast the murders in an entirely different light. Banks's friend Zelda increasingly uncertain of her future in Britain's hostile environment thinks she will be safer in Moldova hunting the men who abducted raped and enslaved her. Her search takes her back to the orphanage where it all began. But Zelda is putting herself in greater danger than any she's seen before.

Part of the Inspector Banks series.