A riveting psychological thriller from the Number One bestselling Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid. In the Peak District village of Scardale, thirteen-year-old girls didnt just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the winter of 63, everyone knew it was a murder.
Catherine Heathcote remembers the case well. A child herself when Alison vanished, decades on she still recalls the sense of fear as parents kept their children close, terrified of strangers.
Now a journalist, she persuades DI George Bennett to speak of the hunt for Alison, the tantalizing leads and harrowing dead ends. But when a fresh lead emerges, Bennett tries to stop the story plunging Catherine into a world of buried secrets and revelations.
This book changed everything I thought I knew about crime fiction Belinda Bauer, bestselling author of Snap
Every now and then, a writer transforms the landscape of the literary canon: Val McDermid is one such writer Fiona Cummins, bestselling author of Rattle
Just mesmerizing Joseph Knox, bestselling author of Sirens
A brilliant book Holly Watt, award winning author of To the Lions
'From the first pages, we know we're in the hands of a master ' Jeffrey Deaver
Beautifully written Daily Telegraph
'One of the best detective stories I've read' Ruth Rendell
Possibly the best McDermid has written Sunday Telegraph
