On a sweltering day in July 1937, reporter John Steadman is in Londonโs St Paulโs Cathedral waiting for his girlfriend ... But romance is pushed aside when he witnesses a man falling to his death from the Whispering Gallery, killing a priest in the process. Did he jump or was he pushed?
Two days later Johnny receives the first of a series of grim packages at the offices of his newspaper, the Daily News. Each contains the body part of a woman and an enigmatic note, one of which says that he will be the murdererโs final victim.
To catch a killer, Johnny must set himself up as bait โ with police and a fascinated public looking on. But he still has to uncover the tragic truth behind the double-death in the cathedral...
Mark Sanderson is a journalist. He wrote the Literary Life column in the Sunday Telegraph for 12 years and currently reviews crime fiction for the Evening Standard. His memoir, โWrong Roomsโ, a moving account of his relationship with his partner who died from skin cancer, was published in 2002 to widespread acclaim. Melvyn Bragg described it as 'one of the most moving I have ever read'.