It has been a decade since Alan Langford was murdered in what was dubbed the 'Epping Forest Barbecue' - deep in the heart of the woods, his charred remains were discovered in his burnt-out Jag. His wife Donna was found guilty of conspiracy to murder her husband and served ten years in prison.

But just before she is released, she receives a nasty shock: an anonymous letter containing a photo of her husband. The man she hates with every fibre of her being, the man she paid to have murdered, is still alive and well.

DI Tom Thorne, battling his own inner demons, becomes involved in a case where nothing and no one are as they first seem. It takes him much further from his London beat than he has ever been before - and further into the heart of darkness...

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Not one of my favourite Thorne books, but still enjoy him as a character.

on the bookshelf