As helicopters search Northern England's Peak District for fifteen year-old Laura Vernon, Detective Constable Ben Cooper quietly dreads the worst. And when her body is found in the woods, Cooper's investigation begins with a short list of markedly uncooperative suspects: retired miner Harry Dickinson, whose black Labrador discovered Laura's body, and Laura's wealthy parents. Uneasily teamed with ambitious newcomer Detective Constible Diane Fry, Cooper tests a town's family ties, friendships, and loyaties -- and finds that in order to understand the present, they must unearth the past.
- ISBN10 0671786040
- ISBN13 9780671786045
- Publish Date 30 October 2001 (first published 2 May 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 22 December 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Simon & Schuster
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 480
- Language English