-- Could Mrs. Graves's violent death have anything to do with her husband's profession? Someone in power may be framing the biographer to keep damaging secrets from coming to light. It is a theory that leads Daniel's investigation unexpectedly to London's Special Branch'and, disturbingly, to one of his father's closest colleagues. Caught between duty to the law and a fierce desire to protect his family, Daniel must call on his keen intellect'and trust his natural instincts'to find the truth in a tangle of dark deception, lest an innocent man hang for another's heinous crime. -- ' -- ' -- 'Kirkus Reviews