Publisher's Synopsis
Winter 1963: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale. For the young George Bennett, newly promoted to inspector, it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case: a murder with no body, an investigation full of dead ends.
Decades later he tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but inexplicably pulls the plug just before publication. Catherine is forced to reinvestigate the past with results that turn the world upside down.
