Jimmy Perez is at a funeral when the side of the hill the mourners were
standing on slid away. They were fortunate to get away, but a woman in a
croft down below wasn't so lucky. Who was she? There doesn't seem to
be anything to identify her in the croft.
Later James Grieves, the pathologist calls to tell him that the woman
hadn't been killed by the slide. She had been strangulated. Perez then
calls the mainland to ask DCI Willow Reeves to come help with the
investigation. Willow is able to come up with a possible identification
and it seems to be confirmed by a man who rented the croft sometime
earlier.
However, when they contact the place the victim worked, it turns out
that she is alive and well. So, who is the imposter? Her identity is
discovered when Jimmy finds an old photo of her. His sergeant, Sandy
Wilson recognises her as a star in a TV series. Now to determine what
her connection to the island is.
The body of a local lawyer is then discovered on the shore of the
island. He had a legal connection to the house where the body of the
woman was found. Why would he have been killed? As Sandy checks the
accounts of the dead man, he finds something both surprising and
suspicious.
Author Anne Cleeves requires the detectives to do further investigation
before they find the killer. The ending has quite a twist to it that
the reader doesn't see coming. A very good read.
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