Theo Bax, a young artist, becomes involved in a series of strange puzzles. Why was the girl in the blue coat killed? Who was the sleeping woman in the empty house—the woman who suddenly vanished? How could his car have been taken from a locked car park without his knowledge, and why was it then returned? And is his connection with these events a mere conincidence, or is there more to it than meets the eye? Soon, Theo finds himself becoming the chief suspect in two cases of suspicious death—and as the evidence against him piles up, so his only way out is to solve the puzzles himself… THE INDIRECTIONS is a tense and intriguing whodunit from the author of THE PAST IS NEVER CLOSED and THERE WAS AND THERE WASN’T.