Judo world champion Samantha Falconer becomes a London private investigator when she is
physically no longer able to compete. She returns to Oxford to look into the disappearance
of the wife of John O'Connor, a psychiatrist. She is shocked to receive a letter from
a man claiming to be her father warning her that her life is in danger. She had believed
her father, an undercover agent, to be dead. The investigations take her back and forth
between Oxford and London where the missing woman has a flat.
Samantha receives more mysterious letters and threats. When O'Connor's mistress turns
up dead after being questioned by Sam, Sam doubts whether she should be trusting O'Connor.
Complicating her life, Sam has a lingering attraction for an Oxford police detective who
also happens to be a former lover. She has to pursue many leads until she unravels the
web of deceit around the mysterious deaths.
This is an intense story which examines the two sides of Samantha's character...the
light and the dark. The investigations into the murders of the women lead to hidden
secrets in the Oxford academic world. Samantha's confrontation with her supposedly
dead father is revealing and shattering. The pace is intense and fast moving. The
settings of Oxford and London are authentically depicted.
This book revolves around the life of a troubled young woman.