A new, gripping, and fast-paced mystery novel that exposes the depths of corruption in Canada's national capital and reintroduces some much-loved characters from the highly-acclaimed Inspector Ramirez series.

Cover of Shadow Play book depicting light rail train on tracks in an urban environment.

Slava Kadun, an FSB agent and one of Vladimir Putin's hitmen, discovers a lucrative sideline. Instead of killing Putin's critics, he disappears them with the help of a fourteen-year-old Ukrainian computer whiz who sets them up with fake identities.

But when Slava gets a call to arrange a contract hit on an Ottawa realtor, Susan Winchester, he worries Putin may be on to him. And when he arrives in Ottawa to find the woman already dead in what looks like a professional hit, he has to track down the killer before the killer finds him. The problem is the Ottawa police are after the real killer too, and all the evidence points to Slava.

Detective Jamie Wallace is back at work after a forced two week vacation, her punishment for punching another homicide detective, Michel Tremblay, in the face. When she's ordered to partner with Tremblay to investigate Winchester's murder, she knows it's going to be tough. She and Tremblay hate each other and this one's political. The mayor owns the unit where the woman was murdered, and there's a municipal election underway.

But Jamie has no idea just how tough things are going to get. Haunted by the ghosts of the murder victim and a little boy she can't identify, she has dark family secrets that will be exposed as she and Tremblay track down a cold-blooded killer.