Turnstone

Emma Maloney's dad's gone missing. Detective Inspector Joe Faraday thinks he may have been murdered. But these days, a hunch is not enough in Portsmouth.

Faraday's squad of detectives is battling with an ever-growing caseload in a city torn by violence, poverty, drug-dealing and petty crime. Budgets are tight. Manpower is stretched to the limit. Who can spare the time and resources for an investigation unsupported by hard evidence?

Finding Stuart Maloney, dead or alive, develops into a battle not simply for justice but for sanity. In a world close to disintegration, one man's integrity has never been more important.