A perfect village. A perfect crime.
When two young girls disappear from their primary school, the village of
Heighington is put on high alert--and not for the first time. Called in
to investigate, Detective Karen Hart is sure that parallels with a
previous disappearance are anything but coincidental.
DS Hart is still reeling from a case she tried and failed to solve
eighteen months ago, when a young woman vanished without a trace. She's
no nearer to the truth of what happened to Amy Fisher, but with two
children missing now too, the stakes have never been higher. As she
looks to the past for clues, she must confront her own haunting loss, a
nightmare she is determined to spare other families.
Hart soon realises that nothing in this close-knit Lincolnshire
community is what it seems. Pursuing the investigation with personal
vengeance, she finds herself in conflict with her scrupulous new boss,
but playing by the rules will have to wait. Because while there's no
shortage of suspects, the missing girls are running out of time...