From the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok sensation Murder in the Family and the popular DI Adam Fawley series comes a brand-new gripping thriller in which a true-crime TV show turns up the heat on a controversial case from Fawleyâs pastâŠ
When Nick Vincent, producer of true-crime show Infamous, hears about an explosive new angle on a high-profile caseâthe 2016 murder of an eight-year-old girl in Oxfordâhe leaps at the chance to send a researcher to verify the claims.
Two months later, a dog walker discovers a womanâs body, bound and buried in a shallow grave in the woods. Forensic evidence links the corpse to the disappearance of that same child.
DCI Adam Fawley, the original investigating officer, is called in to run the enquiry. And he remembers the case wellâhe arrested the childâs mother for murder. A murder he now knows she didnât commit.
The investigation raises more questions than answers. What connects the two crimes? Where has the dead girl been all these years? How did she manage to disappear? For Adam Fawley, this is personal...