Persons Unknown : A Novel

Fromtheauthor ofMissing, Presumed,a complicated detectiveinvestigates her mostpersonal case yet.

Detective Manon Bradshaw is five months pregnant and has given up on finding romantic love. Instead, she is in hot pursuit of work-life balance and parked in a cold case corridorthe price shes had to pay for a transfer back to Cambridgeshire. This is fine, she tells herself. She can devote herself to bringing up her adopted twelve-year-old son, Fly Dent, and the new baby. Fly needed a fresh start anywayhe was always being stopped and searched in London by officers who couldnt see past the color of his skin.

Yet when a wealthy businessman is found stabbed close to police headquarters, Manon cant help but sidle in on the briefing. Shes horrified to discover that the victim and the prime suspect are more closely linked to her than she could have imagined. And as the Cambridgeshire police force closes ranks against her, Manon is forced to contemplate the unthinkable: How well does she know her loved ones, and are they capable of murder?