Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the case of a missing
woman in Brighton in the 17th novel in Peter James's bestselling series.
Is this Roy Grace's most challenging case yet? A mystery that is leaving
him totally confounded for the first time in his career.
Most Sundays, Niall and Eden Paternoster like to go for a drive and
visit country houses. She likes to look at them, he likes to dream that
one day . . . However, most weeks they also end up bickering about
something or other. This particular Sunday he wants to get back to catch
the start of the French Grand Prix but she insists they stop somewhere
to buy cat litter. Reluctantly, he pulls into the car park of a large
supermarket and waits while she dashes in. He waits. And waits. But Eden
doesn't come back out, she's gone. When he gets home she's not there
either, and none of their friends or family have heard from her.
A few days later Niall is arrested on suspicion of her murder despite
vigorously protesting his innocence. But as Roy Grace is called in to
investigate the disappearance of Eden Paternoster, it soon transpires
that nothing is as it seems . . .