DCI Alan Banks isn't sure that Zelda is telling him the truth. She is the partner of one of his team's father, Ray Cabbot, an artist. Zelda had been kidnapped as an eighteen-year-old overseas and forced into sex slavery. She had eventually managed to escape and came to England. She has been helping the government identify those involved in the human trafficking business and in that process, managed to identify the man who tried to burn Banks alive a decade ago. But Banks isn't sure she is telling him everything.
Meanwhile, the team is working a double murder. A rich property developer and his manservant were found brutally killed. He was known for his elaborate, risque parties with wealthy and celebrity guests, parties rife with drugs and available women. He had also recently formed ties with some Albanian crime lords so they could be the culprits. But when the house was searched, a trove of recorded encounters were found and one encounter seems to be a rape rather than an agreed upon tryst. Could that woman have come back for revenge?
As the cases are worked, both Zelda and Banks are kidnapped and barely escape with their lives. Will this escalation break the cases wide open?
This is the twenty-seventh Alan Banks mystery. There is only one more which I'm starting now. I'll miss the team and Robinson's intricate yet revealing prose that solves the cases. This book is recommended for mystery fans.
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