Performed at Covent Garden, featuring Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, supported by Italian conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli.

An immigrant’s mysterious death sets off a chilling hunt for the truth in this gripping crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed
“Brilliantly gripping.”—Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List
 
“A police procedural with real imagination and heart, and a marvelous lightness of style and wit.”—Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials trilogy...

A tragic romance unfolds amidst the backdrop of World War II. Manon, accused of collaborating with the Nazis, is saved from execution by a former Resistance fighter. Their tumultuous relationship in Paris leads them down a dark path of survival, involving profiteering, prostitution, and murder. Seeking elusive happiness, they embark on a perilous journey to Palestine. 

"Detective Manon Bradshaw is 39, single, and miserable as sin. She has endured some of the worst dates in internet history. But she loves her job and performs it brilliantly; all she needs to rise up in the ranks is a big break. Edith Hind is a gorgeous, intrepid graduate student at Cambridge University who seems to have it all: a doting boyfriend, a devoted friend named Helena, a loving mother and a father who is a surgeon to the Royal Family. When...