Stepping over the threshold of a once-happy family home turned
charnel house, DCI Michael Thackeray knows he'll be faced with a
grim sight. After all his years in the force, he's come to realise
that you can never truly become inured to the sight of death.
Especially when there are children involved.
On entering the kitchen he is faced with the unthinkable: the
bloodstained bodies of a mother and her young child. Outside the
horror continues; a trail of crimson in the white snow leads them to
another victim. With the father, Gordon Christie, and his son
missing, the police come to the inevitable conclusion that this
cruel tragedy is the result of a domestic row turned violent. But
are things really that simple? Laura Ackroyd, Thackeray's journalist
lover, thinks not, and she soon begins to wonder just who the absent
Gordon Christie really is.
As things fall apart, Laura and Thackeray become tangled in
carefully constructed layers of mystery, and their lives hang in the
balance as the full tragedy of the elusive Gordon Christie is
eventually uncovered
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