"Felicity Holland is missing. She left her handsome West London house to go to her weekly pottery class and didn't come back. She's a mature, sensible woman with a stable home life and a happy marriage - no reason to abscond. Her distraught husband is convinced she must have been snatched. DCI Bill Slider and his team know that when a woman goes missing, you have to move fast if there's to be a hope of finding her alive. But with no evidence of foul...

When the strangled corpse of a nearly seventeen-year-old girl, a bright, gifted student, talented artist, and musician respected by her teachers and peers at an excellent all-girls church school, is discovered in a London park near her home, dressed like a tart, Slider and his team investigate.

In London, police inspector Bill Slider teams up with a black woman constable, Tony Heart, to catch the killer of a homosexual dancer. The probe takes the pair on a tour of London's seedy night clubs. By the author of Blood Lines.

At the BBC-TV studios in London, a music critic is found in the men's room with his throat slashed minutes before he was due to appear on a show. Sergeant Mills sifts through the suspects, ranging from a jealous wife to a vindictive musician.