It has been ten years
since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old
Abigail Mantel. Now residents of the East Yorkshire village of Elvet are
disturbed to hear of new evidence proving Jeanie's innocence. Abigail's
killer is still at large.
For one young woman, Emma Bennett, the
revelation brings back haunting memories of her vibrant best
friend--and of that fearful winter's day when she had discovered her
body lying cold in a ditch.
As Inspector Vera Stanhope makes
fresh enquiries on the peninsula and villagers are hauled back to a time
they hoped to forget, tensions begin to mount. But are people afraid of
the killer or of their own guilty pasts?
With each person's story revisited, the Inspector begins to suspect that some deadly secrets are threatening to unfurl.