Synopsis: The girl’s head is bent as if in prayer, her hands bound tightly together at the wrist. Her bare feet are still against the cold sand, the last thing she ever felt before she breathed her last…
When the body of a teenage girl is found in Rydal Falls’ churchyard, Detective Morgan Brookes abandons her own birthday to attend the scene. In the dim evening light, Morgan can just make out the girl wrapped in a pristine white sheet and is certain she’s been left here for them to find.
The autopsy identifies the girl as sixteen-year-old Shea Wilkinson, and Morgan’s heart cracks with sorrow. The beautiful teenager has been missing for weeks, could she have been suffering all this time? When she learns the sand on Shea’s feet is from a nearby island, Morgan leaves immediately, determined to find the killer’s hiding place and stop them in their tracks.
But scouring the windswept beach, Morgan can’t find any sign that Shea was ever there. And then her phone rings with devastating news. Another girl has gone missing, a young nurse called Milly with the same blonde hair and blue eyes as Shea.
Morgan won’t rest until she has returned the kind, cheerful girl to her distraught parents. But Milly was last seen chatting to one of Morgan’s colleagues on the force… Refusing to think the worst, can she trace the clues and get inside the mind of the most cunning killer of her career, before another innocent life is lost?
My Rating: 4/5
My Review: I am now firmly into this series and although certain elements of the character Morgan is a little annoying I am still thoroughly enjoying this series. The current book starts out on Morgan’s birthday and along with her partner Ben they have plans to relax and celebrate. As per the norm for this series they have no chance of that happening when they receive a call to say a body has been found. When they arrive on scene they are met with a horrific scene and the body is identified as missing 17 year old Shea Wilkinson. The return of the usual and loved characters that make up the team all make their appearances alongside Morgan and Ben with Cain, Amy and Des all making up the numbers while investigating the murder.
The local Vicar Theo is new to the area and Morgan gets her usual gut instinct that something isn’t quite right with him. The team work tirelessly and are devastated when another young girl Milly goes missing. This story certainly has a lot of action in it and there are a lot of threads and leads for the team to work on. I must admit this book certainly held an edge over other books in this series as I read it in record time. There are certainly shocking moments that caught me on the back foot with this book and I found myself genuinely shocked (always a good thing!). This book was a great addition to the series and I would definitely recommend the series.
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