Crosswords by Penny Sumner

London in January is dull and dreary. Business is slow. And Victoria Cross is only too happy to take on a routine missing person’s case. The man she’s tracking vanished twenty-five years ago, and a cold trail leads back to the gangland days of the sixties. It all seems part of a dim and distant past. Until the murderous hostilities simmering below the surface suddenly erupt. A valuable contact is killed, and Victoria knows her own life is now in deadly jeopardy. For Victoria’s partner, it’s an open-and-shut case: Victoria’s life is in danger so either she drops the investigation or April drops her. As tensions mount at work and at home, January in London quickly becomes a very hot month indeed.