One summer day Clara Marshall vanished without trace. A few days later, her children, six-year-old Lorraine & five-year-old Janine, also disappeared & were never seen again. Richard Marshall, Clara's heartbroken husb&, claimed he had discovered his wife was having an affair with an Australian backpacker & that she had run away with him, taking the children with her, destroying the family for ever.
That was twenty-seven years ago. John Kelly, veteran journalist, covered the case when he was a trainee reporter & he suspected something far more sinister. Police enquiries discovered no Australian backpacker & the biggest missing persons operation ever mounted in the south of England revealed nothing. Detective Superintendent Karen Meadows has been familiar with case since childhood & she is only too aware that many suspect Marshall of murdering his wife & children. But where are the bodies? & what is the motive? Then extraordinary events reawaken the case & Kelly & Karen become determined to discover what happened to Clara & her children so long ago, & to seek justice for them...