DI Mandy Lee was young when she escaped from her triad family Crimson Dragon. Now she is a homicide detective in the Hong Kong Police.

The crime scene: a triad brothel where a dead woman is found. She isn’t a sex trade worker and this has Lee and her partner shaking their heads. Nothing about that makes sense.

Their investigation reveals that the woman, an English national, was on her honeymoon. The only trace of her husband is blood in their hotel room.

Lee travels to Northampton, England, where she is assigned traffic cop Ed Roberts to drive her around. He recently had the dead woman’s brother in custody, and the man had a strange story about the dark web and hackers.

International crime, intrigue, cyber security, triads, corruption. A well recommended read from a new to me author.