DCI Jonah Scheens and DC Juliette Hanson are on the scene of an apparent
homicide. It is at a campsite where thirty years ago seven kids had
camped, but only six had gotten up in the morning. Scheens is positive
that the remains belong to a teenage girl by the name of Aurora Jackson.
Scene-of-crime-officer, Linda McCullough, initially is unable to
determine the cause of death, but is able to confirm the identity of the
remains due to dental records. There were packets of drugs also found
near the body. Is it possible that the kids she was with at the time
killed her and hid the body?
Scheens is well versed with the case because he was a young constable at
the time. He quickly has his team begin to review the old case notes.
The team begins to interview the people who had been with Aurora on the
night she disappeared. Scheens is caught off guard when her sister
reminds them that she had mentioned her sister’s English teacher had
been past their campsite that same evening.
Which one is lying, or are their stories distorted by time? One evening
Scheens comes across a fire at the home of one of the group. Is the
killer attempting to intimidate the group? The following morning Hanson
informs him that there had been a similar fire there several years
earlier. Coincidence or something else?
How can Scheens’ team solve this long ago crime, when even he has some
personal issues to be dealt with? Author Gytha Lodge teases the reader
with a number of suspects and hints at Aurora’s last hours throughout
this thriller. An excellent read and hard to put down. I am looking forward to reading the next book in this series.
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