Reviewed by Danielle Pullen
A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of
Derbyshire's CID with a problem. They have discovered a man's body lying
in shallow water, but torrential rain has swollen the rivers and
flooded the roads, making travel difficult and forensic examination
impossible.
And that's not all. The absence of DS Ben
Cooper, on extended leave after an arson attack, has left a serious gap.
DS Diane Fry is a reluctant temporary replacement, but now their
makeshift team is about to be tested to the limit. The fatal events of
one damp August night are likely to remain shrouded in mystery if they
can't track down a car glimpsed only as a dark outline in the rain by a
passer-by.
As the rain turns into a deluge, loyalties among
the officers will be put under intolerable strain as they try to solve
their toughest case yet. And that's before it emerges that Ben Cooper is
not at home, but has vanished into thin air...
Brutal acts of firestarting have ravaged the Peak District, and now a
new wave of moorland infernos sweeps across the national park. For DS
Ben Cooper, the blazes are best left to the firefighters, even with the
arsonists still at large.
But when an intruder breaks into
an abandoned pub, Cooper is on the case - and he swiftly unearths a pair
of grim surprises. The first is evidence of a years-old double
homicide. And the second is a corpse, newly dead...
What
links the three deaths? Where are the missing bodies? Who is responsible
- and how do the raging fires fit in? For Cooper and his rival DI Diane
Fry, it's the most twisted investigation of their lives... and with an
ingenious killer pulling the strings, it could also be their last.
