Bancroft had not committed suicide, that much was clear. I'd been on the case less than a day and already I'd had two separate lobbies land on my back. First, Kristin Ortega's mannered thugs at the justice facility, then the Vladivostock hitman and his spare sleeve. Not to mention Miriam Bancroft's off-the-wall behaviour. Altogether too much muddied water for this to be what it purported to be. Ortega wanted something, whoever had paid Dimitri Kadmin wanted something, and what they wanted, it seemed, was for the Bancroft case to remain closed.