Ex-DI Hillary Greene, now working as a consultant to the cold-case team of the Thames Valley Police is still traumatized by a vicious attack from a stalker who, it now appears, was responsible for a string of other cases involving missing girls. Her bosses are worried she is not up to the job and Hillary, too, suffers despair at her failure to make progress and catch the man who might not be content the next time simply to leave her with one scar to remember him by. Another tense, thrilling outing for the ever popular Hillary Greene from the pen of gifted storyteller Faith Martin.