
A young woman emerges from a coma Who is she & why was she dumped unconscious in a hospital car park upon a dark night? She is unable to recall anything even her name Then Ada Shaftsbury a boisterous shoplifter she meets in a homeless hostel takes up her cause & names her Rose Peter Diamond is already investigating a suspicious death
- a woman has plunged from the roof of Bath's Royal Crescent during a party & none of the guests seem to know who she is Badgered by Ada & galvanised by another gruesome death Diamond takes on the case & is soon forced to admit that Rose is the key But she has disappeared & Diamond's own dark night is just beginning In a mystery of stunning complexity Peter Lovesey amply demonstrates his gifts as the grand master of the contemporary whodunnit