Paperback. Pub Date :2009-06-25 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield. Mail on Sunday.When young Tracey Pedley vanished in the woods around Burrthorpe. the close-knit community had their own ideas about what had happened. but Deputy Chief Constable Watmough has it down as the work of a child-killer who has since committed suicide - though others wondered about the last man to see her alive and his fatal plunge into the disused mine shaft.Returning to a town he left in anger. Colin Farr's homecoming is ready for trouble. and when a university course brings him into contact with Ellie Pascoe. trouble starts ... Meanwhile Andy Daziel mutters imprecations on the sidelines. until a murder in Burrthorpe mine forces him to take action that brings him...