On a river journey to Naniwa to unmask officials selling information to pirates, Akitada witnesses the recovery of a body. The image of the drowned child prostitute follows him as his own problems and disasters multiply. Someone is sabotaging his...
The brutal slayings of a string of her patients in New York and a horrific attempt on her own life leave Hailey Dean down, but not defeated. After a yearlong respite back home in the Southland, former violent crimes prosecutor Hailey Dean finally...
She was going to die. She could feel it, her life ebbing away as surely as fine sand through fingers. France, 1963. It s a time of great change, not least for Inspector Lucas Rocco. As part of a nationwide initiative to broaden police operations, he...
Picardie, 1963. A truck drops illegal workers by a deserted stretch of canal in the dead of night. Days later, one of them surfaces, stabbed to death. Inspector Lucas Rocco must trace his fellow travellers but trawling for illegal arrivals is a...