When Tami hears his domineering father is negotiating for him to marry a girl in Nigeria, he is determined to defy him. But can he protect his little sister from something much worse? The conflict will spiral beyond his own family and the tight-knit area of Northeast London where they live.
Acting Detective Superintendent Linley, meanwhile, is investigating the death of a fellow police officer with Detective Sergeants Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata.
The mystery of how the detective died will lead the team to her family and relationships, the complex layers of love, ambition, lies and self-deception created by those closest to her. And then to the cases she was investigating for the special task force where she worked. Lynley encounters a world that is far from his experience, and a shockingly controversial cultural practice, which not everyone involved considers to be a crime.
