A fifteen year old girl has gone missing after a party and her boyfriend was found brutally murdered less than twenty four hours later. Was the girl the culprit or is she also missing and who would want to kill these kids?

Tragedy leaves Gemma back in her costal home town of Fairhaven with her son. Escaping reality she begs to be out on the murder case so she can flee with Ben and bury herself in work. Putting off the hard conversations of what happens next with her family and the life she wants to love.

While Gemma is searching for answers and navigating friend she’s also working out her new colleagues. The case is very similar a case Gemma worked previously and it brings so many emotions crashing back down. That cases ended in tragedy, will this be the same or will she solve the case before time runs out and someone gets hurt?

Book three is the Gemma Woodstock series, I found them gem second hand and have slowly been collecting all of Bailey’s backlist. Another story full of twists and turns and that familiar relatability in Gemma!