Prosecutor Helen West views the whole subject with a jaundiced eye. In this case, she doesn't even like the officer accused, the volatile and compulsively unfaithful DS Ryan, friend of her lover, Superintendent Bailey. Ryan maintains a stubborn silence in the face of the charge but when the physical evidence against him proves to be unusually strong, West and Bailey assume his guilt.
Until slowly, preoccupied as they are with their own loves and loyalties, a different suspect begins to emerge. A man who knows the law and how to avoid it. A man who believes that there is no such thing as rape when the victim welcomes him. And there is no legal formula to deal with someone who brings chocolates and flowers, leaves without a trace, corrupts the witness with her own shame and learns to kill with impunity . . .
- ISBN10 0754020797
- ISBN13 9780754020790
- Publish Date 1 February 1999 (first published 7 November 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 June 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Evans Publishing Group
- Imprint Zero to Ten
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 280
- Language English