Sparky twenty-five-year-old tax inspector Leah Hunter just can't resist her own curiousity . . .
While she waits for her good friend and occasional lover Detective Inspector Nicholls to pick up some essentials from his office, Leah is passing the time by chatting up the desk sergeant when she sees an old friend propelled into the change room, bucking, kicking and screaming like a banshee.
Not at all like the quiet Jeannie Johnson Leah remembers from their schooldays.
Then Jeannie disappears. And Leah, determined to find her, is led down a dangerous trail of drugs and blackmail where her own life is soon in jeopardy.