Hard light : a Cass Neary crime novel
(Book)

"A Thomas Dunne book."

Fleeing Reykjavík and a cluster of cult murders, offbeat photographer, Cass Neary, lands in London to rendezvous with her longtime lover, Quinn, a person of interest to both Interpol and the Russian mob. Only Quinn doesn't show up. Alone in London and fearing the worst, Cass hooks up with a young woman with her own dark past, who brings her to the wrong party. Cass becomes entangled with the party's host, Mallo Dunfries, an eccentric gangster with a penchant for cigar cutters and neatly wrapped packages, and a trio of dissolute groupies connected to a notorious underground filmmaker. Forced to run Mallo's contraband, Cass is suddenly enmeshed in a web of murder, betrayal, and artistic and sexual obsession that extends from London to the stark beauty of England's Land's End Peninsula, where she uncovers an archaeological enigma that could change our view of human history--if she survives. -- Adapted from dust jacket.