When 19-year-old Scott Travis is found battered to death, the police are baffled. Probationary police officer Clare Coppola delves deeper into Scott's past and a murky history emerges. Scott was a blackmailer. His victims included a medical student, a former prostitute and even a police officer. Which of them was desperate enough to kill to keep their secret hidden? Could it be somebody very close to home?A fast paced mystery from the author of the best selling Bone and Cane series. Belbin takes the reader deep into the lives of a group of young police officers finding their feet in the inner city. With a new afterword from the author about the writing of the novel.'David Belbin is one of the finest crime writers around today' - James Craig