Peace is over. Revenge is on the agenda. A great pleasure awaits fans. And if you're not a fan yet, why not? Val McDermid delivers an emotional intensity that can only be found in the best crime literature.

Never forgotten: The teenager Alexandra Tozer was murdered on her family farm. Five years later, her sister Helen will return.

Never suspected: As soon as DS Breen tracks down the original investigating sergeant, the man disappears. And Helen is gone too.

Never revealed: The only connection between the suspects is the Kenya emergency – a nightmare that the English would prefer to forget. But others remember every bloody detail. And when another woman is kidnapped, Breen fears that the story – in all its shame and horror – is coming back to haunt her.