A disgraced probation officer's clients are falling victim to a vicious killerbut will anyone believe what she has to say?
Grace Midwinter is at breaking point. Following a dreadful mistake at work, her career as a probation officer is hanging by a thread. Then her clients start dying in grotesque and premeditated ways. When one ex-offender is beaten and dumped in the harbor, and another grisly corpse is discovered soon afterward, Grace can't help but dredge up her recent past.
Rumors swirl about conspiracies and vendettas, some of which involve Grace and her colleagues. Grace discovers that the deaths have been made to look like the sordid results of a gangland turf war but are actually hiding something else. Can she persuade the people in power that her suspicions could be correct?
Grace knows she's in trouble. She just doesn't realise how deep. If only she could tell her friends from her enemies . . .
"A fresh new talent." Phoebe Morgan, author of The Babysitter on The Lake