This mystery is part of the famous Had-I-But-Known School of mysteries founded by Mary Roberts Rinehart with the publication in 1908 of her first work, The Circular Staircase....
A graduate student with a passion for jazz arrives in New York to discover that a legendary saxophonist he had assumed long dead is not only still alive but playing in an East Village club....
Sarah Tucker, a young married woman, bored and unhappy with her life, becomes obsessed with trying to find a little girl who disappears after a neighbouring house is destroyed....
Deftly interweaving present and past, Slaughter offers another brilliant knife-edge tale of suspense that cements her place among the most outstanding practitioners of crime fiction today....