This is the second mystery featuring Detective Jack Lennon of the Northern Ireland Police Service. Fans of dark Irish noir such as the works of Ken Bruen will enjoy Neville's work. The story follows Galya Petrova who travels to Ireland on a promise that she will work for a nice Russian family, teaching their children English. Instead, she is dragged into the world of modern slavery, sold to a Belfast brothel, and held there against her will. She escapes but with a terrible cost and encounters even more human depravity on her quest to simply return home. Detective Lennon faces his own demons while trying to solve four murders tied to Petrova's actions and subsequent escape. The book has a lot of violence and is not for the squeamish. There is a slight paranormal element at work with Lennon's daughter Ellen that hearkens to the work of John Connolly and Stephen King's The Shining.
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