Last to KnowTorn apart by tragedy, bought together by crime. Deborah Parker is the newest recruit at Jennings and Associates solicitors, and she's just bagged herself one of the biggest clients there is. Michael Mooney Junior is wanted by the police for a brutal attack on a prostitute, but he just happens to be the son of one of the biggest names in organised crime in Ireland. Deborah is his key to freedom. But you can't play with the Devil and expect to emerge

confesses a murder of his own

The investigation is complicated for Dalgliesh by his love for Emma Lavenham

Roosevelt seems determined to keep the US out of the war

he's been alive for centuries

and the pitiless stranger

War is raging across Europe and Hitler's terrifying secret weapons

For Kinsey Millhone

and as everyone knows

and even the country

Yet the clues are there in this astonishingly mature story of an elderly Jewish businessman who has sold his soul

the rare characters of cork''lightness

But the only thing scarier than little Eva Reyes' dreams - apocalyptic visions of death and destruction - is the habit they have of coming true