The Rufford Cut
Years ago, Rachel Melling disappeared beside the Rufford Branch.
Her belongings were found near the water. There was no body and no conclusive proof of what happened-only an official explanation that gradually hardened into accepted fact: Rachel entered the canal, accidentally or deliberately, and never came home.
Now, long after she was declared dead, someone asks former Lancashire detective Frank Mercer to examine the closed file.
Frank begins where the original inquiry ended. Why were Rachel's final movements reduced to assumptions? Why do the surviving records fail to agree? And who benefited when uncertainty was turned into a convenient conclusion?
As Frank retraces Rachel's last known route through Rufford and the surrounding Lancashire countryside, old loyalties tighten, private histories begin to fracture, and a disappearance everyone learned to live with becomes dangerous again.
The Rufford Cut is the fourth novel in The Frank Mercer Files-a grounded British crime mystery about a closed case, a missing woman and the people who needed the official explanation to hold.
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