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A stunning new thriller from the writer the St. Louis Post-Dispatch calls "the equal of legends in the genre such as P. D. James and Ruth Rendell." Two towns. . . Two murders . . . Two detectives searching for one indisputable truth. When Karen Drew is found one chilly Sunday morning in March, sitting in her wheelchair with her throat cut, Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot, on loan to a sister precinct, draws the case. Back home in Eastvale on that same damp morning, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is pondering the brutal death of 19-year-old Hayley Daniels, found raped and strangled in the Maze, a tangle of narrow alleys behind the market square. Two cases with two different paramaters: While Banks finds suspects galore, Annie hits a brick wall-until a breakthrough spins her case in a shocking and surprising new direction, straight towards Banks. Coincidence? Not when another incident occurs in the Maze which seems to bizarrely link the murders. As Banks and Annie search for answers, the emotional baggage of their personal relationship begins to surface, complicating the already complex investigation. And it soon becomes clear that there are two killers in their midst, and that at any moment either might strike again. Peter Robinson's award-winning Inspector Banks novels have been named a "Best Book of the Year" by Publishers Weekly, a "Notable Book" by the New York Times, and a "Page Turner of the Week" by People. Robinson was born and brought up in Yorkshire, but has lived in North America for more than 25 years.