By Val McDermid
When inner most investigator Kate Brannigan is requested to discover a lacking individual as a favour, she accepts – in spite of everything, it’s received to be larger than the final weeks of staking out homes and warehouses from sunrise till nighttime, and dwelling on dual carriageway carrier station meals.
The lacking individual in query is a songwriter, Moira Pollock, and Kate’s seek leads her into a few of the seediest elements of Leeds and Bradford. yet what she doesn’t comprehend, is that discovering Moira is simply a prelude to homicide . . .
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