When a man is found dead in a garden pond in a wealthy Toronto neighbourhood, Detective Morgan ponders Japanese koi fish while his partner Miranda Quin is lead into a sequence of revelations that could destroy her. And when a woman walks onto the crime scene and declares herself the victim's mistress, everything changes, even the past. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence and explicit descriptions of sex. Followed by “Grave doubts”.
The discovery of two headless corpses dressed in colonial clothing and locked in a grisly embrace draws Detectives Miranda Quin and David Morgan of the Toronto Police Service into a Gothic mixture of sex and death that ultimately threatens their survival.
Detective Miranda Quin of the Toronto Police Service takes time off to write a mystery and gets caught up in a sinister plot with global implications; her Homicide partner David Morgan investigates a death on a yacht and ends up precariously compromised in the North. Their stories converge when they both return to Toronto, discovering themselves trapped in a deadly labyrinth. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language.
