Betrayed - Couverture souple

Washington D. C. A woman is found murdered in her own home; her throat slit, her corpse brutalised, subjected to the most appalling torture before she died.
A piece of incriminating evidence leads to the swift arrest of a local drug dealer. Case closed.
But local cop Jack Cassian has questions. The victim came from one of the city's wealthiest families. So why was she living in such a rough part of town? Why is her mother, the icily formidable Lydia Chapin, so hostile and unhelpful?
Teaming up with the dead woman's sister, Sydney, to find the answers, Cassian's investigation leads him from the crack dens of the inner city to the country clubs and gilded offices of the nation's political elite. The answers lead only to further questions and, before they know it, Sydney and Cassian are slipping deep into a labyrinth of money, power and deceit to uncover a decades-old conspiracy that could rock the nation. Can they survive long enough to learn the secrets of . . . the Betrayed?
David Hosp is the author of the acclaimed thriller, Dark Harbour:
'Twists and turns like a cat on a hot stove. Top stuff' Independent on Sunday
'A work of craft and cunning, leading the reader from one plot twist to the next. A helluva debut' Jack Kerley

14-year-old Amanda Creay arrives home from school to find her mother murdered: her throat slit, her corpse brutalised, subjected to the most appalling torture before she died.
A piece of incriminating evidence at the scene leads to the swift arrest of a local drug dealer. Case closed.
But local cop Jack Cassian has questions. The victim, Elizabeth Creay, came from one of Washington's wealthiest and most powerful families. So why was she living in such a rough part of town? Why is her mother, the icily formidable Lydia Chapin, proving so hostile and unhelpful to the police investigation? Where is the dead woman's computer?
The answers lead only to further questions - and before he knows it, Jack Cassian is unearthing disturbing secrets that stretch back more than fifty years. A shameful conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of government. A dark secret that someone will kill to keep . . .