DI Rowan Jackman and DS Marie Evans are working a missing persons case seeking the daughter of one of their own coworkers. Finding a body is heartbreaking, but at least an answer.
Unfortunately, there are still questions. The girl's body has signs of drugs she wouldn't have taken willingly. They have another case dropped on them from a neighboring jurisdiction, which claims it's got a work overload.
And an old case, of a disappeared little girl who was never found, is also handed to them, as a high priority, because the mother, who has never given up, is making another media push to get her found.
When one girl is found wandering on a muddy beach, with the same drugs in her system that the dead girl had, and talks about her friend Emily being dragged off, they realize they have a much bigger, much nastier problem on their hands. Missing girls over years, possible police corruption in the neighboring jurisdiction, and an even older case, of an apparent murder-suicide of a couple whose surviving children are now grown, may all be connected.
This is a separate series from the DI Nikki Galena series, but also set on the fens, against the same background. Pathologist Rory Wilkinson appears in both. Yet it's a different jurisdiction, with a whole different cast of police and the regulars of a different town to become familiar with. They are, as with the other series, solid, likable characters determined to do their jobs and serve their community. The pacing moves, and the clues are there. We also get to know the teenagers, and I'll avoid spoilers by simply saying, "other involved parties."
An excellent story. Recommended.
I bought this audiobook.
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