Harbour Street

As thick snow blankets Newcastle, boisterous crowds of Christmas revellers jostle onto the Metro. And Margaret Krukowski – sitting quietly in the middle of the busy train – is viciously murdered, though nobody sees the stabbing take place. Margaret’s murderer is seemingly invisible; her killing motiveless. As DI Vera Stanhope arrives at the scene, she feels a familiar buzz of anticipation, sensing that this will be a complex and unusual case. When a second woman is murdered just days later, Vera knows that the key to this new killing will be found in Margaret’s past. What was troubling this reserved, elegant lady so much before she died? Vera can feel in her bones that there’s a link between the killings – one that she must discover before another life is lost…