'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday When young Tracey Pedley vanished in the woods around Burrthorpe, the close-knit community had their own ideas about what had happened, but Deputy Chief Constable Watmough has it down as the work of a child-killer who has since committed suicide -- though others wondered about the last man to see her alive and his fatal plunge into the disused mine shaft. Returning to a town he left in anger, Colin Farr's homecoming is ready for trouble, and when a university course brings him into contact with Ellie Pascoe, trouble starts! Meanwhile Andy Daziel mutters imprecations on the sidelines, until a murder in Burrthorpe mine forces him to take action that brings him up against a hostile and frightened community!
- ISBN10 0708993052
- ISBN13 9780708993057
- Publish Date 1 February 2002 (first published 7 April 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 November 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Charnwood
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 408
- Language English