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.