A young woman’s body is found in a lake. Is it a sad case of suicide or something more sinister? Hannah Weybridge, still reeling from her friend’s horrific murder and the attempts on her own life, doesn’t want to get involved. She reluctantly agrees to look into the matter for the family who are convinced the A grade student had everything to live for and would never have taken her own life.
Meanwhile her friend Joe Rawlington has entered parliament following a by-election and has received worrying information about female Asian pupils being married off. This coincides with her friend Linda’s plea to her to look into these absences at her school. Hannah gives a careers talk at the school, and is disconcerted to see a man teaching there who looks remarkably like the homeless man who took a bullet for her just months previously…
Many of the characters from the previous two books, whom I’ve grow to love writing about, reappear: DI Claudia Turner and Sergeant Mike Benton head up the police investigation while the journalists at The News support Hannah’s work especially Rory, the News Editor. Barrister Simon Ryan and her close friend James, a hospital doctor are there for her when she needs them. However Tom Jordan is still in New York and that hurts Hannah more than she’d care to admit.
Of course there are new characters to meet whom I hope you’ll find as interesting as I do. Some will help Hannah, others will do their utmost to obstruct her.
Once again Hannah becomes involved in a web of deceit while the repercussions of her previous investigations still haunt her. As the past stalks her steps, a hidden danger accompanies her every move.
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