Naomi Jenkins has a strange profession - she makes custom sundials. Her personal life is no less strange. Every Thursday at the same time she meets with a man about whom she knows practically nothing, but whom she loves more than life itself. One day he doesn't show up for a meeting, and Naomi decides that something terrible has happened to her mysterious lover. Did his wife, whom Naomi never saw, kill him? Or did he simply run away from his women? Or maybe the matter is much more complicated and terrible? In this unconventional detective story, every word hides a lie, each of its participants is not who he tries to seem, and behind the façade of a respectable life hides real hell. It's up to policeman Simon Waterhouse and his partner Charlie Seiler to sort out the love and criminal connections, who, in turn, also have an extremely difficult relationship. In her second detective story, Sophie Hannah maintains the high level of psychologism and fascination that she already set in her debut novel “Little face", which became a big European bestseller.