Three missing.

Multiple suspects.

No proof.

Praised for her success in an earlier case, DI Barbara Forster is suddenly accused of having tampered with evidence in it - an accusation that threatens to derail her entire career. As the man who was wrongfully convicted 10 years earlier goes free, a young woman goes missing. Meanwhile, Barbara is suspended and the media smell blood. To discover what really happened she must work alone, aided only by Alice Myers, an investigative journalist for a mass-market tabloid who hopes her latest report on a recent murder will help take her friend off the front pages.

But as Barbara re-examines the now tainted investigation, Alice begins to uncover links between her story and her friend’s increasingly desperate attempts to find the missing teenager. For Barbara, now temporarily reinstated, her job has become her life. The question is, is there any line she won’t cross to keep it? Not only does she have to outmanoeuvre the agendas of powerful men including a manipulative politician - and manipulative women including Alice who is hell-bent on a major scoop - she also has to confront the demons of her own past.

Drawn into a terrifying web of deceit she faces a frantic race against time - when two more teenagers go missing - following a treacherous path that leads all the way to the fast-paced, explosive climax of tragedy, terror and despair. Murder and mystery, drugs and sex, secrecy and sensationalism, all unfolding against a background of small-town ambitions and big-time egos. A gripping crime thriller with a shocking double twist that ultimately forces you to question everything in this latest relentlessly chilling and harrowing portrait of evil. False memories, false confessions, false accusations converge on a small Lake District town in...The Sentinel. Latest in the popular, gritty psychological crime thriller series and the best yet!