When a businessman arrives home to find his wife in bed, carved from belly to throat with a very sharp knife, the elite Robbery-Homicide division of the L.A.P.D responds in full force and Detective Lena Gamble prepares for her first major case.
At first all fingers point towards the victim's husband, but best-case scenarios only happen in films and it soon transpires that this murder is one of a series of brutal crimes against women and the work of a killer dubbed `Romeo' by the ravenous Hollywood media.
Lena is all too aware of the peril of the public eye - she has found herself in it before, on the night of her rock-star brother's unsolved murder five years ago. And now she risks a far more dangerous fame as a cloud of conspiracy descends on her investigation and she edges towards Romeo's deadly line of sight . . .Lena must catch this psychopath before she becomes his next glamorous victim . . .
'Ellis's writing is a cut above that of most authors in the crowded serial-killer field' Sunday Times
- ISBN10 033053971X
- ISBN13 9780330539715
- Publish Date 2 January 2014 (first published 29 May 2007)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Pan Books
- Format eBook
- Language English