Publisher's Synopsis
Lost in a world of cruelty... On the day Karen Sharpe is promoted to Detective Sergeant, she loses control and attacks a prisoner she is interrogating. Karen is seemingly cleared, but the incident casts a long shadow. When the battered body of a young girl is discovered, Karen and trainee DC Marcus Roth are led to Mary Bradley, currently the carer for a helpless six-year-old boy, Andrew Farrar. As the truth of Mary Bradley's violent past emerges, the enquiry turns into a race against time before Andrew becomes another of her child victims. Meanwhile, Marcus discovers that when threatened, Karen has a tendency to ignore the rule book...
