You can run from a guilty conscience, but you can't hide....

James wasn't much more than a child when he had an affair with Lily. And now, 24 years later, Lily confesses to James that their affair led to a daughter, Kate. And Kate desperately needs her father's help: she's wanted for murder. But there is no room for murder in James' life. He has a wife, a good job, a nice house in the country....

As Kate comes crashing into his world, so she lights the fuse under his ordered life. Because James has also been keeping a secret - a very dark and deadly one....

Andrew Taylor is the author of a number of critically acclaimed crime novels, including the Lydmouth series, the groundbreaking Roth Trilogy and The American Boy, his best-selling historical novel which was a Richard and Judy Book Club selection.

He has won many awards, including the CWA John Creasey Award, an Edgar Scroll from the Mystery Writers of America and the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Daggers (the only author to win it twice).