An intriguingly developed, superbly plotted police procedural from award-winning crime writer Barry Maitland. Set in the brand-new mega-shopping mall Silvermeadow - more like a small city than a department store' - this continues the Scotland Yard partnership of Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla and Detective Chief Inspector David Brock..
Once you heard bank robber and violent criminal 'Upper' North's voice, you never forget it. And Pauline Lewins, brutalised and terrified when he robbed her bank, knew she never wanted to hear it again. But she just did, at Silvermeadow, the largest shopping mall in England -- so large that it's more like a small city than a department store. Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard are called in to investigate the reappearance of one of the most violent criminals Brock has ever come across.
And fourteen-year-old Kerri Vlasich is missing. She's been gone for two days now and her mother's only just called the police. Kerri's been at Silvermeadow too -- she's got a job there. But there are other stories about Silvermeadow, stories about missing girls that make her mother Alison Vlasich's blood run cold.
Trying to investigate one case without being seen to be interested in the other, Brock and Kolla come up against dead-ends everywhere. Until Kathy Kolla decides to follow up some leads of her own, leaving herself open to danger. And going solo can be very dangerous...
