Smoke and Whispers (The Oxford Series)

Oxford private detective Zo Boehm turns up dead in Newcastle, launching her friend Sarah Tucker into an investigation with several leadsbut no one she can trust. When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private detective Zo Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zo kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her? Why was she wearing the jacket a murderer had stolen years before? And whats brought Sarahs former sparring partner Gerard Inchon to the same broken-down hotel where shes staying? Coincidence is an excuse that soon appears pretty unconvincing. Sarah cant leave until shes found the answers to her questions, however dangerous they might turn out to be.