Book description
Ruth and Simon Pierce's rare romantic break is shattered by
devastating news: their daughter, Heather, on holiday in Cornwall with
a friend's family, has disappeared. The loss is more than they - or
their marriage - can bear. But time does heal and slowly Ruth builds a
new life for herself. A new husband, Andrew - even a second daughter, Beatrice.
The chances that history could repeat itself are next-to-impossible
- that is until, years later, a desperate phone call launches DI Will
Grayson and his partner, DS Helen Walker, into an investigation which
will test their professional and emotional resources to the very limit.
Yet as Grayson becomes increasingly obsessed with a recently
released child-abuser and Helen is drawn deeper into a destructive
love affair with a married colleague, there is a real danger that
their most demanding investigation yet will slip fatefully through
their hands...
John Harvey is the author of the richly praised Charlie Resnick
novels, the first of which, Lonely Hearts, was named by The
Times as one of the '100 Best Crime Novels of the Century'. His
first novel featuring Frank Elder, Flesh and Blood, won the CWA
Silver Dagger in 2004, and a Barry Award for the Best British Crime
Novel published in the US in 2004. In 2007 John Harvey was awarded the
CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger and in 2009 he was awarded an honorary
degree, Doctor of Letters, by the University of Nottingham.
To find out more about John Harvey visit his website at: www.
mellotone. co. uk
