<p>In this riveting novel from the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Paris Architect</i> a man in disgrace finds that digging up the past is the only road he can take.</p><p>Architect Douglas Layton has lost everything. The balcony of one of his beautiful music halls collapsed during a packed performance killing dozens. Layton knows the flaw was not in his design; someone else must have caused the dreadful catastrophe. But with no proof and a hoard of furious Londoners screaming for blood someone has to take the fall—and Layton finds himself facing a five-year prison sentence.</p><p>When he is finally freed Layton is determined to start over. With a new name and identity he takes a job as a set painter. But as Layton begins to discover dead bodies hidden within theater halls across London it soon becomes clear something darker is chasing him.</p><p>When he unearths a clue that ties the bodies to the disaster that ruined him he knows redemption is within his reach...unless the culprit gets to him first.</p>
