MJ White

A victim stabbed through the heart sets off a deadly chain of events that will plunge Cora into her most personal case yet. Then another victim is found on another beach, the body and objects around it carefully posed.

After serving nine years of a life sentence for the manslaughter of a former beauty queen, Shona Pickton returns to her home town of Felixstowe, exonerated after an appeal quashed her conviction. She has always protested her innocence - despite being tried and convicted by the media.

When a terrified, bloodied man staggers from a boarded-up shop in broad daylight in the small Suffolk village of Evernam, police are called to the scene. What they find inside the derelict building sends the community into shock: four bodies, their throats savagely cut.

Ewan Stokes disappeared after a football match in Ipswich 15 years ago. No one knows where he went but every year on the anniversary of his disappearance, random mysterious sightings are reported across Europe. Since Ewan vanished, a fanatical online following has grown up around the mystery.

The police are chasing shadows in the search for eight-year-old Hannah Perry. But psychologist Cora Lael has a gift—one that could be the girl’s only chance of survival. When Hannah disappears from the sleepy Suffolk village of St Just, the close-knit community is shaken to its core.