Forgiveness is indeed a blessing. Detective Inspector Jessie
Driver, of the West End Central CID, has her hands full. Her
brother Bill, back from treating AIDS victims in Africa, is camping
out in her flat; her floundering romance with rock star P.J. Dean
is about to become fodder for the tabloids; and DI Mark Ward and
her new boss, DCI Moore, are both hostile toward her, particularly
when she suggests that stage actress Sarah Klein has concocted a
missing-daughter scenario to garner publicity for her new show.
Even worse, when Jessie tries tracking down the daughter, she winds
up at the derelict Marshall Street Baths, where Don, the slightly
deranged caretaker, keeps repeating, "He drowned. It was an
accident," which hardly explains the mummified body, chained to the
wall and wearing a watch that stopped on Feb. 23, 1989. Who was the
mummy? Why was he left to die in the baths? These questions lead
Jessie to two family tragedies. Anglican exorcist Father
Forrester's suggestion that the "unquiet souls" stuck between here
and hereafter must be forgiven before they can move on unsettles
pragmatic Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death from
cancer. Self-serving lies, demented rationales, and stirrings of
faith must all be examined before Jessie understands the depths to
which forgiveness can drive people. Fine-tuned, complex plotting,
with the beleaguered Jessie (Dead Alone, 2003) a heroine worth
rooting for-although nonbelievers like her may find their cynicism
challenged here. (Kirkus Reviews)
Jessie Driver returns in the second of this fresh, streetwise
London-based series from 'the new Mistress of Thrillers' Sunday
Express The decaying Marshall Street Baths in the heart of Soho are
a den for drug-users and the homeless -- the perfect hang-out for a
teenage runaway. But when DI Jessie Driver goes there in search of
a missing girl, she finds something quite different: the mummified
body of a man, buried in the rat-infested basement. Who was he? And
how does this murder relate to the tragic drowning of a young boy
years earlier? Jessie's investigation takes her on a journey
through the past -- the kidnapping of a little girl; the descent
into madness of a bereaved father -- but the dangers she'll face
are very much in the present.
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