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Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. They are above all—the most powerful men in the world. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one.

Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed. DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a boy who has recently disappeared.

The Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger Winning Author Winner of the 2024 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel ‘It’s hard to think of a better guide than D. V. Bishop to the brutality and glamour of Renaissance Florence’ – Andrew Taylor, bestselling author of The Royal Secret...

Siete pies, cortados y atados entre sí, aparecen flotando en el río Sena, cerca de la sede central de la Policía Judicial francesa. Se forma rápidamente un equipo de investigación, dirigido por el capitán Martin Vaas. La búsqueda de los cuerpos a los que pertenecen esos pies hace que se reabran casos de hace más de veinte años, crímenes en los que al cadáver le faltaba un pie, cometidos cerca del curso de un río. Sin embargo, las piezas no terminan de encajar. Una misteriosa inscripción (en uno de los pies se lee «ganador») podría encerrar la clave de todo.