This twisty, gripping mystery marks a return to form for British author Bonner after 2005's disappointing When the Dead Cry Out
. Award-winning Fleet Street journalist John Kelly, an old friend of Bonner's series heroine, DCI Karen Meadows, has fallen from grace as a result of his addictions and is now a reporter for a small Devon newspaper. Meadows gives Kelly a tip regarding the murder of rock superstar Scott Silver, who was apparently stabbed in his Torquay home by an intruder, who was himself stabbed to death by Silver's wife, Angel, in self-defense—or so Angel claims. Tired of covering such mundane matters as council meetings, Kelly uses his personal history with the widow to get an exclusive interview, but doing so launches him further down the road to self-destruction. While the truth of the double killing becomes obvious early on, Bonner adds another murder toward the end whose solution will shock many. (May)
