Lindsay Gordon

A protest group hits the headlines when unrest at a women's peace camp explodes into murder. Already on the scene, journalist Lindsay Gordon desperately tries to peel back the layer of deception surrounding the protest and its opponents. She finds that no one – ratepayer or reporter, policeman or peace woman – seems wholly above suspicion. Then Lindsay uncovers a truth that even she can scarcely believe…

Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon agrees to cover a fund-raising gala at a girls' public school. But when the star attraction is found garrotted with her own cello string, Lindsay finds herself investigating a vicious murder. Who would have wanted Lorna Smith Cooper dead? And who could have slipped out of the hall at just the right time to commit this cold-blooded crime?

While at a trade union conference in Sheffield, Lindsay Gordon finds herself in the company of old friends - and enemies, including union leader Tom Jack. When Tom is found dead, having catapulted out of Lindsay’s tenth-floor hotel room, she is taken in for questioning by the police. Hoping to clear her name, Lindsay searches the delegates for a murderer who may have struck once before. Along the way she uncovers a seething cauldron of blackmail, corruption and abuse of power.