Sergeant Barbara Havers is devastated. Hadiyyah, the daughter of her dear friend Azhar, has been kidnapped by her mother, and no legal recourse is possible. Azhar never married Angelina, and the child doesn't bear his name. Azahar is in despair.
Sergeant Barbara Havers is devastated. Hadiyyah, the daughter of her dear friend Azhar, has been kidnapped by her mother, and no legal recourse is possible. Azhar never married Angelina, and the child doesn't bear his name. Just as Azhar is losing hope, Angelina finally reappears with alarming news: Hadiyyah has been abducted from a Tuscan market square. The Italian police are assigned to the case, and Barbara will have to take matters into her own hands, nearly causing a diplomatic incident, to get Scotland Yard involved, in the person of the renowned Inspector Thomas Lynley. The two detectives soon discover that the case is far more complex than a simple kidnapping… From the London fog to the sun-drenched hills of Tuscany, Elizabeth George sweeps us away in this eighteenth Thomas Lynley mystery, a whirlwind of emotions and betrayals.
