Sacrifice

Jack Warr now runs Scotland Yard's fledgling art fraud unit, and its survival rests on proving that a multimillion-dollar painting is a forgery. Then his informant, the gallerist Ester Langton, is brutally murdered, and the case stops being a matter of brushstrokes and provenance. The trail leads to Adam Border, a reclusive genius holed up in a decaying Sicilian villa with Mafia ties and a history of violence.

This is the final book in Lynda La Plante's Sunday Times bestselling Jack Warr series, and it pushes him further than ever: away from his family, away from his duty, and towards the question of which side of the law he truly stands on. For anyone who has followed Jack's uneasy rise, it is a dark, fast and fitting send-off.