Publisher's Synopsis
"This novel is gritty, streetwise, funny and sure to bring in more fans for the still-enigmatic Mallory." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY When a woman is found hanged in an East Side apartment, the carefully placed red candles and an enormous quantity of dead flies suggest some kind of bizarre ritual. The victim lives, but remains in a coma...Mallory does not recognise her immediately. Fifteen years have passed since Kathy Mallory lived on the streets of New York, succoured by hookers and thieving to survive. Now she has a police badge, and no one is allowed to call her Kathy anymore. Just Mallory. But as she pursues a case which has its origin in an unsolved murder committed years ago, Mallory finds herself staring her bitter past in the face...
