Strange Affair

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On a warm summer night, an attractive woman drives north with a hastily scrawled address in her pocket. In London, a desperate man leaves an urgent message on his brother's answering machine. By the next morning, the woman is found in her car on a peaceful country lane, shot through the head. Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot arrives at the scene. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, meanwhile already haunted and withdrawn after nearly dying in the fire that destroyed his home, has gone missing just when he's needed most