One wintry London morning, angelic-looking art dealer Rachel Tenison went for a jog in Holland Park and never came back. A few days have passed by the time her naked corpse is found there, bound at the wrists, knees, and ankles and angled forward in prayer. Its not long before Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia realizes that Rachel is hardly the innocent soul she had appeared to be... Ever-shrewd Tartaglia begins to suspect possible links with the unsolved murder of a mild-mannered professor a few years back...

"A Mark Tartaglia mystery". Includes an excerpt from the sequel, Evil in return.