The coroner's report identifies the body as young, black, female, and impossibly anonymous. Yet one thing is clear to London detective Jane Tennison, the news of her murder will tear apart a city already crackling with racial tensions. Enduring the other cops' chauvinism and racism, Tennison knows she won't get much help. Then her stormy personal life explodes across the headlines of London's tabloids, and Tennison's determination to bring the killer to justice will become an obsession—one that could send her spiraling over the edge.