When fifteen-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera, she is forced out of the family cottage & left to raise her
...Twenty years ago, Malcolm Whiteley discovers his attractive wife Lysette is having an affair.
The Whiteleys are wealthy, and live in the magnificent Dungeon House. But Malcolm is under financial and emotional pressure, and he begins
Twenty years ago, Malcolm Whiteley discovers his attractive wife Lysette is having an affair.
The Whiteleys are wealthy, & live in the magnificent Dungeon House. But Malcolm is under financial & emotional pressure, & he begins to disintegrate psychologically, suspecting the men in their circle of being Lysette's lover. When Lysette tells Malcolm their marriage is over, he snaps, & takes out the old Winchester rifle he has been hiding from Lysette...
Back to the present day, & Hannah Scarlett's cold case team are looking into the three-year-old mystery of the disappearance of Lily Elstone, whose father was Malcolm Whiteley's accountant. Their investigation coincides with the disappearance of another teenage girl, Shona Whiteley, daughter of Malcolm's nephew Nigel.
Nigel now lives in the Dungeon House, despite its tragic history. But as Hannah's team dig down into the past, doubts arise about what exactly happened at the Dungeon House twenty years ago...
Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780749019907
• Author: Martin Edwards
• Publisher: Allison & Busby
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 352
• Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.1 x 2.3 cm