Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family, Cordelia soon realizes it is not a case of suicide, and that the truth is entirely more sinister.
V. V. James ha publicado anteriormente, bajo el pseudónimo de Vic James, la trilogía de fantasía contemporánea conformada por Glided Cage, Tarnished City y Bright Ruin. También ha trabajadocomo productora de investigación en las noticias de Channel 4. Actualmente dirige documentales para los canales BBC1 y BBC2.
