When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private detective Zoë Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoë kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her? Why was she wearing the jacket a murderer had stolen years before? And in this fourth volume in the series (following Why We Die), what's brought Sarah's former sparring partner Gerard Inchon to the same broken-down hotel where she's staying? Sarah can't leave until she's found the answers to her questions, however dangerous they might turn out to be.