Lethal white

When Billy a troubled young man comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed and cannot remember many concrete details there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's story Strike and Robin Ellacott once his assistant now a partner in the agency set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside.