Daughters of Darkness

"Superior… Refreshingly, Spencer doesn&apos;t make Redhead, who&apos;s capable of snark and petty malice, wholly likable. Readers will look forward to the further adventures of this distinctive lead" – Publishers Weekly Starred Review <br Private investigator Jennie Redhead is hired to investigate a murder that&apos;s left the police baffled, in this gripping historical mystery set partly in 1970&apos;s Oxford and partly in war-torn 1940&apos;s London. Oxford, 1975. Three years ago, world-renowned anthropologist Grace Stockton was slain in a brutal, unprovoked attack. Despite a large-scale police investigation, the identity of the prime suspect was never uncovered . . . and neither was the location of Grace&apos;s head. But Grace&apos;s daughter, the wealthy academic Julia Pemberton, refuses to accept that the trail has run cold. Determined to find out who killed her mother, she knows just the woman for the job: private investigator Jennie Redhead. Who was the woman caught on CCTV visiting Grace&apos;s isolated home on the day of the murder? And why did she cut off her victim&apos;s head? Jennie&apos;s search for answers takes her on a dark, disturbing journey into the past, from the ancient tribal customs of Papua New Guinea, to war-torn 1940&apos;s London, and to a dark tangle of secrets and scandal that someone is desperate should never be revealed . . .