The light of day

"A single, dazzling day in the life of George Webb -- ex-policeman turned private investigator -- illuminates his checkered past, his now all-consuming relationship with a former client, and the catastrophic events that involved them both two years ago."@en
"London private investigator George Webb goes about his day, thinking about his relationship with Sarah Nash, now in jail for the murder of her husband, his own role in that death, his fall from grace as a police officer, and other events that have brought him to this stage of life."
"A PI recalls the events of two years earlier that brought him together with a client."@en
"Former London police detective George Webb, "booted off the force" for trying in all the wrong ways to put away the right man, is now a private investigator specializing in matrimonial cases. He has crossed a line with a client, wholly upending his own life. By the close of this remarkable novel, which unfolds over the course of one day in George's life and mind, we will know him intimately from his childhood secrets to his fall from grace as a cop. In its slow and revelatory accumulation of physical and emotional detail, The light of day illumines the ambiguities at the heart of the most profound and inexplicable human emotions: fear and hate, love and desire."@en