A DCI deals with a homicide on a boat in the Thamesand hostility from his own colleaguesin the debut of this police thriller series.
A shady London nightclub owner is found dead on his boat on the River Thamesand newly promoted DCI Alex Fleming, a man with a troubled past, is keen to prove his worth with his first murder case after joining the Major Crime Unit of Thames Valley Police.
But Bill Watson, a belligerent fellow DCI, gives Fleming a hostile reception and, as internal politics come into play, Fleming finds himself up against both a difficult case and his own colleagues. During the course of the investigation, Fleming and his sergeant identify five suspects. Now they need to eliminate them one by oneor figure out whether they should be looking somewhere else entirelyin this first book in an electrifying new crime series.