The disappearance of two French girls in a Staffordshire beauty spot signals a tough new case for Detective Joanna Piercy.
C cile Bellange is a worried mother. Her eighteen-year-old daughter Annabelle and her friend Doroth e left Paris for a summer hitchhiking holiday in England, but it's now September and the only contact from them is a postcard sent from the picturesque setting of Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire three months ago...