DCI Erika Foster and DS John McGorry are at a quarry with a dive team
searching fo a container full of heroin. The divers successfully find
it, but also come up with something else. It is a small skeleton
wrapped in plastic and chains.
Later Dr. Isaac Strong calls Erika. He is the pathologist who has been
tasked with examining the skeleton. He is sure that he has identified
the skeleton as belonging to a seven year old girl. Erika wants to work
on the case, but she is assigned to the drug squad and her supervisor
refuses to allow her to change duties. She hopes that her former
commander, Paul Marsh can get her the SIO on the case.
Marsh puts in a word with the new assistant-commissioner at Scotland
Yard, and Erika is assigned the case. She will report to Marsh who also
informs her that no one one the murder teams wanted the case. She wants
DIs Moss and Peterson on her team.
The family of the dead girl had been torn apart by her death. The
recovery of her body brings the agony back as Erika and Peterson quickly
discover.
The pair also turn to the former SIO, Amanda Baker. Unfortunately, she
has retired and become an alcoholic over the intervening years.
Unbeknownst to Erika, Baker has a source on her team about what is going
on with the investigation.
The team has a couple of suspects in mind, but the first has an alibi
and the second is dead. Then a third suspect pops up, and he has
connections to the other two. However, they have nothing solid on him.
A few days later, former DCI Baker is found dead. She had left messages
on Erika’s phone to urgently get in contact with her. When Erika
checks her phone, she discovers that the messages have been wiped.
Obviously her phone has been hacked!
Who else has had their phone hacked? Author Robert Bryndza throws
subtle hints at the reader, but it is the twist towards the end of this
murder mystery that tosses the reader an unexpected loop. The
conclusion is completely surprising. This was a thoroughly enjoyable
read, and hard to put down.
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