From the Dead B 英文原版

　　When Donna Langford receives a very recent photo of herex-husband in the post, she gets the shock of her life. Becauseshe's just spent ten years in prison for organising his murder.When her daughter goes missing, Donna believes there can only beone man responsible and hires Anna Carpenter, a determined youngprivate investigator, to find him. DI Tom Thorne worked on the AlanLangford case, so when Carpenter brings the photo to him, herefuses to believe that the man whose body was found in aburned-out car ten years before can still be alive. But when aprison inmate that he and Anna interview is viciously murdered,Thorne starts to understand that Langford is not only alive, butready to get rid of anyone who could threaten his comfortable newlife in Spain...

　　"While Billingham has well and truly mastered the modernpolice procedural, the thing that sets him apart from the crowd isnot just his emotional insight, but the way he invariably packssuch a heart-wrenching punch... Billingham's most desperatelygripping read yet"
　　--Mirror