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'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday When young Tracey Pedley vanished in the woods around Burrthorpe, the close-knit neighborhood had their own ideas about what had occurred, but Deputy Chief Constable Watmough has it down as the function of a baby-killer who has since committed suicide -- although others wondered about the last guy to see her alive and his deadly plunge into the disused mine shaft. Returning to a city he left in anger, Colin Farr's homecoming is prepared for trouble, and when an university Program brings him into connection with Ellie Pascoe, trouble begins! Andrew Daziel mutters imprecations to the sidelines, until a homicide in Burrthorpe quarry causes him to do this that gives him facing a scared and dangerous neighborhood meanwhile!