Its a long hot summer in the Peak District but the blue skies are darkened by police helicopters and the sound of birdsong is drowned out by the increasing hysteria of a full-scale search operation for a missing teenage girl. Laura Vernon is smart sexy and the keeper of many secrets but now shes lying dead in a thicket in the heart of the country. The first outing for Derbyshire detective duo Ben Cooper and Diane Fry and the beginnings of a complex relationship.
