Seventeen-year-old Alice Fareham vanishes after a night at the fair. For DI Carrie Tyler, it looks like another routine missing person case in the Yorkshire city of Arthwaite.
It’s anything but.
Alice has stumbled onto a web of financial fraud connecting her own family to a network of dangerous secrets. When a body is found and Alice becomes a murder suspect, Carrie finds herself chasing corruption that reaches into the local banks, the community, and the police force itself.
But as the investigation closes in, the evidence throws up a shocking name.
In a city where loyalty runs deep and betrayal runs deeper, how far will Carrie go for justice — and what will it cost her?
Some secrets are worth killing for.
A gripping Yorkshire thriller for lovers of Ian Rankin, Anne Cleeves, LJ Ross, and MW Craven