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Running out of money, Diana Poole is forced to go back to the only work she knows: acting. Her much-loved husband and movie-star mother have died, and now Diana is over thirty-five. In Hollywood that means she might as well be dead. Still, a few key people remember her talent, and she lands a role in a new movie. But an actress should never get her hopes up, especially when she discovers the female lead’s murdered body.

Who can you turn to if not the police? Essex, Christmas Day. As the residents of a small town enjoy their mince pies, shots ring out in the street. Five people are gunned down before the lone shooter turns his weapon on himself. Grace Fisher, now Detective Inspector, is tasked with making some sense of this atrocity - all the more sensitive because the first of the victims was one of their own: a police officer.

A young psychiatric registrar is found beaten to death in the woods close to a summer camp for young patients suffering from eating disorders. It is run by the charismatic, world-renowned Professor Ned Chesham. DI Grace Fisher investigates, but it is not long before she is pulled from the case - to head up a Metropolitan Police review into a cold case involving Chesham himself.

Giunto a Ginevra, l'ispettore di Europol Tobia Allievi si troverà di fronte a un puzzle di omicidi, frammenti di frasi in latino, foto strappate e melodie interrotte. Un misterioso serial killer tenterà di intavolare una partita a scacchi con la polizia, mosse e contromosse psicologiche, trappole e piste false. Per tener testa al ricercato, Allievi dovrà farsi aiutare da una giovane latinista, Domitilla, con la quale collaborerà per tentare di arrivare a capo del mistero.