M J Lee

A woman appears on the streets of Shanghai. She has thousands of cuts – and is screaming for Inspector Danilov. Days later, the woman is dead. But another body is left waiting for the Inspector. Someone is playing with Danilov. someone prepared to kill, just to get their message across. At first, the victims seem unconnected.

As tensions simmer in Shanghai, children go missing. Shanghai 1932: Inspector Danilov hasn't recovered from the death of his child. but across a Shanghai riven with communal tensions, children are going missing. Missing, and then murdered. Who is responsible? Why have the children's bodies been exhibited for all to see? Just as Danilov thinks the stakes couldn't be higher, there is a new dimension, Japan, a rising power flexing its muscles.