A Kesley and Lambert novel. A 16-year-old girl is found beaten and suffocated in the woods. Her name was Karen Boland and her short life had been secretive and unhappy.
The police find plenty of Karen’s middle-aged lover, her stepfather, her classmates… As they dig deeper, they discover that the teenager’s life had been surprisingly complicated.
She was born in the north-east of England and now lives in Worcestershire. She is the creator of ‘Detective Chief Inspector Kelsey and Detective Sergeant Lambert’ of the Milbourn CID.