Synopsis

The world felt muted around Detective Harding, a dull echo of the life he’d once known before the shadows took hold. He stared at the scene, the stark white of the Jaguar Mark Two a jarring contrast to the blood-stained pavement. It was a brutal punctuation mark at the end of a long sentence. Professor Alistair Finch, a man whose mind had charted constellations and deciphered forgotten languages, lay beneath the vehicle. The weight of his accomplishments seemed to have been no shield against