Publisher's Synopsis
"Prime entertainment" KIRKUS REVIEWS When three-year-old Emilia Troy goes missing everyone knows that social worker Joshua Salem is the prime suspect. Although Emilia lived with her widowed and remarried father, Joshua was convinced that the child was at risk. Three days later a body is found in a shallow grave. Superintendent Gregory Summers has several suspects - and a new Chief Inspector sidelined with family problems. In the middle of a countryside riddled with foot and mouth disease, events move towards a chilling climax as he tries to trap an adversary who is cunning, ruthless and quite possibly insane...
