Journalist Tony Di Venuto has asked DCI Hannah Scarlett to re-open the
case of Emma Bestwick, who has been missing for ten years. An anonymous
caller has informed the journalist that Emma won't be coming back.
Scarlett discusses the case with her retired colleague, Les, Bryant,
who is contracted to work on cold case files. They decide to reopen the
case.
A short time later, the mysterious voice tells Di Venuto where the body
of Emma can be found. Scarlett's superior tells her to go ahead with
the search for the body. The search team is surprised and shocked when
another body is found nearby Emma's at the bottom of a mining shaft.
Not long after this, Scarlett is informed of another body found nearby
in the lake. This one is recently dead, and he is known to the police.
On top of that, he had been released from prison just shortly before
Emma disappeared.
It is Scarlett's historian friend, Daniel Kind, who puts a name to the
second victim. He discovers it in a journal that he was reading for
research into the Lake Distrct. However, that doesn't solve the murder
of Emma. Author Martin Edwards has a few twists and turns up his
writing sleeve before the story ends. A good, quick read.
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