Yesterday's Shadow (Paperback, New Ed)

Two murders in one hotel on the same night.
Coincidence?

Both seem routine cases: a cleaner who beat his wife once too often and paid the price, and a prostitute who chose the wrong client. But all hell breaks loose when the dead 'hooker' is identified as the wife of the American Ambassador.

With the FBI, CIA and the federal authorities all on his back, Scobie anticipates a rough time ahead. It is the past, however, that holds the real threat. For while investigating a woman who has succeeded in erasing her imperfect past, Malone is confronted with a former girlfriend intent on rewriting history and turning a long-forgotten affair into something that could destroy his marriage.

"The Malone stories come alive through their setting…Cleary's writing is seamless and his plots imaginative and mature"
'Miami Herald'

"The business of a novelist is to tell a story, Jon Cleary has that talent in abundance"
'Sunday Express'