<p><b>From the author of the BBC 2 Between the Covers hit, <i>The Fine Art of Invisible Detection</i><br><br>''The world''s greatest storyteller'' </b><i>Guardian</i><br><b>''One of the finest crime writers of any generation'' </b>Daily Mail<br><b>''Our finest practitioner of the double-cross plotting'' </b>Mick Herron<br><b>______________________________________</b><br><br>Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances.<br><br>Keen to avoid a similar fate, Wada chooses the cases she takes very carefully. A businessman who wants her to track down his estranged son offers what appears to be a straightforward assignment. Soon she finds herself pulled into a labyrinthine conspiracy with links to a twenty-seven-year-old investigation by her late employer and to the chaos and trauma of the dying days of