Cumbria’s<\/a> remote western coast with its mix of beaches, dunes, and fells, Roman ruins, and nuclear plant.<\/p>\nTwenty years ago, the wealthy Whiteleys called it home. But not a happy one. Malcolm Whiteley had begun to disintegrate under financial and emotional pressures.<\/p>\n
He suspected various men in their social circle of being his wife’s lover. After a disastrous party for the neighbours, Lysette told Malcolm their marriage was over.<\/p>\n
Sadly an old Winchester rifle he had been hiding was at hand…<\/p>\n
Fast forward to today. Hannah Scarlett’s cold case team is looking into the three-year-old disappearance of Lily Elstone whose father Gray had been Malcolm’s accountant.<\/p>\n
The investigation coincides with yet another disappearance of a teenage girl: Shona Whiteley, daughter of Malcolm’s nephew Nigel, who now lives in the Dungeon House despite its tragic history.<\/p>\n
As Hannah’s team digs down into the past, doubts arise about what really happened the night Malcolm killed his wife and 16-year-old daughter Amber, then himself.<\/p>\n
Most of the people once close to the Whiteleys still live nearby. And one Joanna Footit, and her secrets, now returns from London.<\/p>\n
While Hannah leads the complex police inquiries, it is her lover, historian Daniel Kind, who supplies Hannah with the lead that unlocks the whole. Does it come too late?<\/p>\n
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