The coroner's report identifies the body as young, black, female,
and impossibly anonymous. Yet one thing is clear to Detective
Chief Inspector Jane Tennison about the latest victim discovered
in one of London's poorest districts - that news of her murder
will tear apart a city already cracking with racial tensions,
hurling Scotland Yard and Tennison herself into a maelstrom of
shocking accusations and sudden, wrenching violence. Even as
London's brutal killer remains at large, Tennison remains locked
in a struggle to overcome her station house's brutal chauvinism
and insidious politicking.