A suave 1960s London PI searches for a missing person who doesn’t wish to be found in this high-stakes mystery by the author of The Whip Hand.

When Rex Carver is taken on by a solicitor’s firm to trace the sole beneficiary, one Arthur Finch, of an estate worth £6,000, he barely considers the job worth going out into the freezing weather for.

But there is far more ice involved than Carver could have