Oxford private investigator Zoë Boehm struggles with the after-effects of her violent past as she hunts for a killer - or has she become the hunted? Zoë Boehm has harbored a distinct aversion to death ever since she shot the man intent on killing her. So when Caroline Daniels takes a deadly fall in front of a train and her lover fails to turn up at the funeral, Zoë wants nothing to do with the case. But Caroline´s boss is persistent, and as Zoë attempts to unlock the secrets of a woman she´s never met while in search of a man who could be anywhere, she starts to wonder if he´s found her first. And if he has, will that make her the next victim, or prove to be her salvation from a paralyzing fear?