About the book: 2008 / Jack Taylor's life is going downhill - a broken heart, alcohol, dismissal from an elite police unit... At this moment, the mother of a sixteen-year-old girl turns to him for help Sarah Henderson, according to the official version, committed suicide. ...At first glance, all the facts are obvious, there are no doubts, the police are registering a typical case of suicide of a young girl. And only the former policeman, and now a drunken private detective, Jack Taylor, clearly discerns in this death the breath of a terrible secret... He begins his own investigation. However, his office is a pub where he takes coffee and cognac every morning. But the case was solved. Sarah actually committed suicide. Of course, Jack never told her mother about this, since at that time he was madly in love with her.