Publisher's Synopsis
When the take down of a violent criminal goes badly wrong, leaving two people dead, something doesn't feel right to Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch. Then she starts to believe someone is following her home...In Cornwall, retired Detective Inspector Elder discovers that his seventeen-year-old daughter, Katherine, is running wild. Elder feels remorse and guilt, for it was his involvement that led to the abduction and rape that has so unbalanced Katherine's life...Maddy and Elder have a connection - a brief, clumsy encounter sixteen years earlier. When the unhappy Elder is once again persuaded out of retirement, a cold case has a devastating present day impact with sinister implications for the crime squad itself. But Elder must battle his own demons before he can uncover the truth.
