The pretty market town of Sterndale seems like the perfect place for friends Izzy & Laura to raise their children. But their lives
...They watched as the car burnt. A smell of gasoline mingled with the throat-catching stench of melting rubber, almost masking the sickly sweet smell of roasting flesh. No one spoke. The time for recriminations & the apportionment of blame would come. For now they were united by the need to cover up a crime & destroy the evidence. As DCI Fenwick investigates a powerful & predatory paedophile ring & Inspector Nightingale is left to deal with an ex-serviceman turned vigilante, they are both forced to ask themselves: when is a murderer not a murderer, & how far are they prepared to go to see justice done?