The astonishing thirteenth Tom Thorne novel is a story of kidnapping the tabloid press and a frightening case of mistaken identityTom Thorne is on holiday with his girlfriend DS Helen Weeks when two girls are abducted in Helens home town When a body is discovered and a man is arrested Helen recognizes the suspects wife as an old school-friend and returns home for the first time in twenty-five years to lend her support As his partner faces up to a past she has tried desperately to forget and a media storm engulfs the town Thorne becomes convinced that despite overwhelming evidence of his guilt the police have got the wrong man There is still an extremely clever and killer on the loose and a missing girl who Thorne believes might still be alive
