Publisher's Synopsis
In the past... Two eleven-year-olds, Lewis Finch and William Hammond, are evacuated to the Surrey estate of Edwina Burne-Jones. Their friendship will have repercussions which echo down the years. In the present... Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma Jones investigate the death of Annabelle Hammond. A beautiful young woman, she has been strangled and her body left in a local park. Who is the busker seen talking to Annabelle just before she disappeared? And was the fate of both of them set in place more than fifty years previously? "A first rate thriller writer" Ms London