The unmissable new novel from the author of the BBC Between the Covers book club hit The Fine Art of Invisible DetectionThe worlds greatest storyteller GUARDIANOne of the finest crime writers of any generation DAILY MAILOur finest practitioner of the doublecross plotting MICK HERRONUmiko Wada never set out to be a private detective let alone become the onewoman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out thanks to the death of her former boss Kazuto Kodaka in mysterious circumstances.Keen to avoid a similar fate Wada chooses the cases she takes very carefully. A businessman who wants her to track down his estranged son offers what appears to be a straightforward assignment.