DS Cassie Fitzgerald has a secret - but it's one she's deleted from her memory. In the 1990s when she was at school,she and her friends killed a fellow pupil. Thirty years later,Cassie is happily married and loves her job as a police officer.
One day her husband persuades her to go to a school reunion and another ex-pupil,Garfield Rice,is found dead,supposedly from a drug overdose. As Garfield was an eminent MP and the investigation is high profile,it's headed by Cassie's new boss,DI Harbinder Kaur. The trouble is,Cassie can't shake the feeling that one of her old friends has killed again.
Is Cassie right,or was Garfield murdered by one of his political cronies It's in Cassie's interest to skew the investigation so that it looks like the latter and she seems to be succeeding.
Until someone else is killed...
Publisher: Quercus PublishingISBN: 9781529409970Number of pages: 352Weight: 248 gDimensions: 196 x 126 x 34 mm
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As ever,Griffiths skilfully blends complex plotting with a cast of wonderfully vivid charactersThis standalone thriller is a page-turner with an engaging cast of characters. It provides an enjoyable take on the classic killer-at-a-school-reunion,horror-movie trope,before delivering a jaw-dropping twistWitty takes on life,love and relationships pepper the novel and make the plot all the more appealingThe third outing for Detective Harbinder Kaur,this is an easy-to-read,rewarding mysteryFilled with Griffiths's trademark good humour,this is not only a well-researched police procedural but also a very comforting novelOnce again Elly Griffiths has created an ingenious mystery with hidden depthsA tightly paced,character-driven bookA cleverly plotted page-turner that's well up to Griffiths's vertiginously high standardA typically twisty treat from Griffiths
Elly Griffiths
Elly Griffiths is the pen-name of British author Domenica de Rosa. A former Editorial Director for children's books at Harper Collins,Griffiths published her first novel,The Italian Quarter,in 1998 under her own name. A holiday in Norfolk inspired her to write what would become the bestselling novel The Crossing Places,the first novel in the Dr Ruth Galloway series of mystery novels and Rosa's first novel as Elly Griffiths. She is also the author of the popular Stephens and Mephisto novels which began with The Zig Zag Girl.
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