Kit Quinn is a young woman who inhabits dangerous worlds: crime scenes, interrogation scenes, hospitals for the criminally insane. Horribly wounded in a brutal attack, she must return to the site of her worst fears. She is asked by the police to advise them on a simple murder inquiry. A young runaway has been found killed by a London canal and the chief suspect is the man who wounded her.

But it isn't a simple case. Kit refuses to accept appearances, against opposition from the police and her own fears; she finds other crimes, other victims. Her obsessive search for the truth draws her into an underworld of abandoned and exploited young people, and puts her at terrible risk. Nicci French follows the bestselling Killing Me Softly and Beneath the Skin with this story of a woman's attraction to what most terrifies her. It is a poignant tale of the missing and the unloved, of those who save them and those who kill them.

 

 
I have a big pile of Nicci French novels in my to read pile, and I know that if I got the time to read them I'd love them. Her first book, The Memory Game, was a really disturbing and beautifully crafted thriller and I'm very much looking forward to seeing how French develops as a writer.