She went out for a run. She never came back.
When eighteen-year-old Phoebe Lennox vanishes from the streets of Cambridge three weeks into her first term at university, the police call it posh parents panicking - a girl who'll turn up after a weekend off-grid. Her mother, Marcia, knows better. Phoebe doesn't behave like this. Something has happened to her.
Phoebe left her wallet and her phone behind. There's CCTV of her jogging - and meeting a man nobody can identify. There's the ex-boyfriend who planted a spy app on her phone. And there's Marcia, whose fear runs deeper than she'll explain - holding together a flawless life that is starting to crack.
DS Jo Boden picks up the case on a quiet Saturday shift and suspects this is no false alarm. She recognises something in Marcia because she has past secrets of her own.
Somebody knows where Phoebe is. But who's lying - and why?
A DS Jo Boden Thriller. Book 2.
For readers of Cara Hunter, Clare Mackintosh and Sharon Bolton.