As usual DI Helen Grace has arrived early to work in Southampton. Her DS, Mark Fuller, immediately presents her with a new case. A girl has claimed that she has killed her boyfriend. Along with DC Charlie Brooks they go to meet her. Both she and her boyfriend had been reported missing.
The young woman tells a story of being captured by a woman and imprisoned in a dry, deep swimming pool. Evidence there seems to prove her story, as does the autopsy on the victim. DI Grace accepts her story as true. While she is at the autopsy, Fuller brings together an investigative team, and Brooks stays with the young woman.
As Grace is preparing to meet with the team, Brooks brings her news that two men have gone missing. She is sure that this case is connected to the other. Especially when the forensic team discovers a home in the gas tank of the car the men were driving in. They now realise that the men had been stalked, and their kidnapping planned.
When one of the men is found alive, he gives a description of a woman who had picked the pair up. He describes the place where they were held. He had killed the man they were with. However, when Grace goes to the site, the victim is not who she expected. It is someone whom she had dealt with before.
Just after Christmas a mother and her handicapped daughter were found dead in their home. They had been locked in, deprived of food and water. Grace had known both of these victims. What is going on?
A break occurs when one of the victims identifies a suspect, but unfortunately, there is not enough to go on. They get a break when they go through the suspect’s computer. However, before they can arrest her, she disappears.
Author M. J. Arlidge has written a tremendous psychological thriller in the first of a series involving DI Helen Grace. This is a book that the reader will find hard to put down. I’m looking forward to reading the sequels.
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