Captain Ethan Davis had been in a quandary.

Once the victim’s identity had been established, he had immediately called Liam O’Grady and informed him that the young woman the Irishman shared with his brother, the one they called their Pet, was in hospital. It took about fifteen minutes for the Irishman and his equally distraught brother to turn up at the hospital. O’Grady his jaw shadowed and unshaven, his hair tousled, his dark eyes shadowed with weariness, ran in first, almost ...