Banks is on holiday, headed for Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco. His daughter, Tracy, home in Leeds and angry with her father, is headed for some very deep trouble. Robinsons nineteenth Inspector Banks novel is a stunner. Handguns are illegal in the U.K., and whenever one is reported, the police swing into high gear. But things go very wrong when the police swoop down o Banks is on holiday, headed for Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco. His daughter, Tracy, home in Leeds and angry with her father, is headed for some very deep trouble. Robinsons nineteenth Inspector Banks novel is a stunner. Handguns are illegal in the U.K., and whenever one is reported, the police swing into high gear. But things go very wrong when the police swoop down on a home in Eastvale to seize a reported handgun. In the confusion, Patrick Doyle, a former neighbour of Banks, is shot. Doyles daughter, Erin, is to blame for the gun being in the house, and while shes in police custody, her housemate in Leeds, Tracy Banks, decides to let Erins boyfriend know that the police have been around their place. Bad decision. When Banks returns home from holiday, Tracy is missing. And thats not the worst of it. Robinsons latest Inspector Banks novel is a powerful story of how the volatile emotions of love and resentment can turn deadly when fear comes creeping in.