Detectives Alan Banks and Annie Cabbot return in another electrifying novelfrom the acclaimed awardwinning author of the New York Times bestsellerFriend of the ... » 

Detectives Alan Banks and Annie Cabbot return in another electrifying novelfrom the acclaimed awardwinning author of the New York Times bestsellerFriend of the Devil When the body of a man is discovered hanging from atree in the woods near Eastvale all signs point toward suicide. At leastthats what it initially looks like to Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot. The man is soon identified as Mark Hardcastle the set and costume designer forthe local amateur theater company. Mark was successful and well liked in thecommunity but enough remains mysterious about his background that suicideisnt completely out of the question. But when Marks older and wealthier loveris discovered bludgeoned to death in his home Annie begins to thinkdifferently. Could it have been a crime of passion or did overwhelming grieflead to a man taking his own life? Increasingly confounded she calls in thevacationing Chief Inspector Alan Bankseven if it means prying him away fromhis new girlfriend. Once on the investigation Banks finds himself plungedinto a case where nothing is as it seems. More and more his own words about thevictims latest production Othello are coming back to haunt him forjealousy betrayal envy ambition greed lust revengeall the colors ofdarkness are quickly becoming his world as well. «