Alice Fox, on research leave in Ireland from City University New York, and Belfast Murder Squad Detective Inspector, Caroline Paton, take a short break in the charming Catalan village of Begur. Everything seems set for the perfect holiday but things go wrong when Caroline is drawn into a local murder case with an Irish suspect. Alice resents the intrusion on their holiday and tensions mount in paradise. Back in Belfast, the Murder Squad begins to investigate the brutal family killing of a woman and her two little boys. What at first seems to be an everyday case of violent masculinity becomes complicated when before his arrest the perpetrator is abducted and held by a local gang. A major search begins and a commonplace case of violence against a woman suddenly attracts international outrage. When a tantalising link emerges between the two crimes, Alice Fox once again becomes central to resolving a complex murder mystery. 'Cleverly constructed, with a plot that will keep you reading until the end.'