From the author of the BBC 2 Between the Covers hit, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection''The world''s greatest storyteller'' Guardian''One of the finest crime writers of any generation'' Daily Mail''Our finest practitioner of the double-cross plotting'' Mick Herron______________________________________Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective AgencyBut so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances.Keen to avoid a similar fate, Wada chooses the cases she takes very carefully. A businessman who wants her to track down his estranged son offers what appears to be a straightforward assignmentSoon she finds herself pulled into a labyrinthine conspiracy with links to a twenty-seven-year-old investigation by her late employer and to the chaos and trauma of the dying days of the Second World War.As Wada uncovers a dizzying web of connections between then and