FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER OF THE DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER. Beneath the beauty lurks something bad... June, 1977 As night falls, seventeen-year-old Cassie Baker leaves Winchcome and takes her usual short-cut down a moonlit country lane.
She never makes it home. With no body, and no evidence, she's just another teenage runaway. December, 1999 A manhunt is launched for a missing girl, Bryony Motson.
The search leads Cotswold police to an ancient burial site outside Winchcombe. Here, inside a stone chamber, are the remains of Cassie Baker. Bryony is never found.
June, 2016 Stella Darnell, cleaner and private detective, moves to Winchcombe to solve the long-cold case. By now, evidence has decayed, gossip become fact, and witnesses forgotten what they saw. And, if there is a killer in their midst, it is someone who has got away with murder for twenty years.
Someone who will do anything to keep it that way... PRAISE FOR LESLEY THOMSON: 'Lesley Thomson is a class above' IAN RANKIN. 'A haunting novel with a simple but clever plot' THE SUNDAY TIMES.
'A wonderfully eerie setting, unique characters and a chilling plot' ELLY GRIFFITHS. 'Clever, credible and memorable' LITERARY REVIEW. 'Gloriously well-written ...
Thomson creates a rich and sinister world that is utterly unique' WILLIAM SHAW.
