While working pickpocket cases on the Tube, she worms herself into the Metropolitan Police murder unit investigating the murder of a young woman who also had her photograph used in newspaper ads. We soon learn she has been demoted for slugging an arrogant rape suspect-a great way to introduce a likeable character. In contrast to Zoe transit police constable Kelly Swift is introduced taking down a hood on the tube. The villain of the piece, late in the book, sums up Zoe’s character quite well, “I’ve never known anyone to moan about their life as much as you do.” And moan she does. Zoe comes off as whiny, insecure, and gutless. Thus begins her search for whoever stole her photo and rather improbably used a slightly overweight forty-year-old woman as a come on for escort duty. The book opens with Zoe on the underground reading a London tabloid and finding her picture among the advertisements for phone sex and escort services.
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