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.