Publisher's Synopsis
Arabella Darley was brutally murdered. Young, beautiful and the mistress of Balfefield Abbey, the violence of her death was matched only by the obscenity in which her naked body was elaborately posed for those who would find her. In a story that spans Ireland, England and West Africa, as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth, journalist Clara Sullivan and Detective Inspector Reginald Keating are ordered to investigate this most barbaric of murders. It is a dangerous time and place for both. Will either uncover the truth? The whole truth?
