Too hot to handle?

Nigella Parker, Detective Inspector with the City Police, has a fear of fire and a talent for solving arson cases. When a charred figure is found curled beside Sir Christopher Wren’s Monument to the Great Fire of London, Nigella is dragged into a case pitting her against a murderous artist creating sculptures using burnt flesh.

Nigella partners with Colm O’Leary of Scotland Yard to track the arsonist across greater London. The pair are more than colleagues--they were lovers until O’Leary made the mistake of uttering three words. Their past isn’t the only buried history as they race to connect the dots between an antique nail pulled from a dead man’s hands and a long-forgotten architect dwarfed by the work of Sir Christopher Wren.

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“[Readers will] root for both heroines.”—Kirkus

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