Coming in JanuaryxRichard Jury returns to the back streets and back rooms of London in The New York Times bestselling series When an old friend pulls Richard Jury into the investigation of a wealthy bachelorxs murder Juryxs not sure whatxs more perplexing the circumstances of the fellowxs death the conflicted stories of the manxs past or the motivations of the casexs lead detectivexthe beautiful and forbidding Lu Aguilar What Jury is sure of is that hexs in over his head both with the inscrutable and challenging Aguilar and the false leads surrounding the once-charismatic Billy Maples last seen in a club named Dust A web of clues draws Jury to the trendy Clerkenwell galleries clubs and hotels to the dark stories behind Maplesxs family and to the Sussex town of Rye where Billy had temporarily taken up the tenancy of Lamb House the charming home where Henry James composed his three masterworks and a place with secrets of its own With Melrose Plant investigating Lamb House Aguilar interceding and the appearance of Maplesxs mysterious young nephew Scotland Yardxs finestxand now infamousxwill need every bit of his intelligence and quiet charm to crack the case.
