On the hunt for two missing persons, Laurel Bowman and Frank Diamond find they have another complex and dangerous case on their hands as they go undercover at a holiday camp near Orford in Suffolk.

Using illicit searches, they uncover incriminating evidence about several members of staff. Then two people are brutally murdered and their missing persons case takes an even darker turn.

Does the answer lie in the past, with the long-ago murder of a young mother and her baby son? What part does Orford Ness, a forbidden and dangerous spit of land, play in this spine-chilling mystery?

Laurel and Frank uncover a web of deceit and cruelty as they try to stop an ingenious sadist from murdering again.

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1971. David was thirteen when he went missing two years ago. It’s now up to Laurel Bowman and Frank Diamond, partners in the newly formed Anglian Detective Agency, to find him.

But how do you solve a cold case with no leads? Could it have anything to do with the brutal deaths of three local residents?

As their first big case unravels, they uncover a circle of temptations, destruction and deceit. But the closer they get to solving the case, the more exposed they are to danger. And now both Laurel and Frank’s lives are at risk . . .

Readers LOVE Vera Morris’s Anglian Detective Agency series:

‘I sat up to past midnight reading this book’ *****

‘Full of twists and turns’ *****

‘A book you just know you are going to like from the 1st page’ *****

‘A perfect detective novel‘ *****

‘I started it early one morning and had finished it by bed-time that same day!’ *****

‘A super read‘ *****

‘This book stands head and shoulders above the rest in this overcrowded genre‘ *****

‘Absolute must read’ *****

Laurel Bowman has started a new life as a teacher on the isolated Suffolk coast while she tries to get over the murder of her sister. But it seems she cannot escape from death.

When the headmaster’s wife is murdered, the detective in charge, idiosyncratic DI Frank Diamond, soon has a list of suspects. He is no stranger to Laurel, but despite their troubled past, together they start to unravel the truth.

Then the murderer strikes again and Laurel must fight, not just for justice, but for her life.

Readers LOVE Vera Morris’s Anglian Detective Agency series:

‘I sat up to past midnight reading this book’ *****

‘Full of twists and turns’ *****

‘A book you just know you are going to like from the 1st page’ *****

‘A perfect detective novel‘ *****

‘I started it early one morning and had finished it by bed-time that same day!’ *****

‘A super read‘ *****

‘This book stands head and shoulders above the rest in this overcrowded genre‘ *****

‘Absolute must read’ *****