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Just before midnight, Mandy is woken by a frantic knocking at the door. It's her ex-husband. Drunk. Again. At that moment her new partner James gets home from work. Mandy hears raised voices. Then a dull, smacking sound. Followed by a sickening crunch . . .DC Barnes is back on the job after an eighteen-month suspension. He's offered this case no one else wants - and he's in no position to refuse. A one-punch homicide.The accused is Mandy's partner James. An honest, upright citizen and a firefighter. The victim is Mandy's ex, an aggressive alcoholic.James's acquittal is a sure thing. No jury will convict this good man defending his girlfriend.So why does James suddenly disappear just before the jury reach their verdict?The following day a body is found at the foot of Beachy Head. The injuries sustained reveal this wasn't a suicide.Barnes's case has now become something deeper and darker than anyone could have imagined.

Something is amiss at the local village school.A man is seen lingering outside the gates - and parents and teachers are getting worried . . .Joshua Baldwin doesn't think he's doing any harm. With no family of his own, he just gets a bit lonely.Piercy tracks him down and warns him off. He's definitely weird. But harmful? She doesn't think so.Then five-year-old Madeleine Wiltshaw goes missing.It's the last day of term before Easter. No one saw her disappear in the playground at the end of the day. What if Baldwin was a threat after all?The team start up a desperate search for the little girl, but Madeleine could be hidden anywhere on these moors.The clock is ticking. Can Detective Piercy find Maddie before it's too late?

South Wales, 1953.Zena Martin and Jake Williams are happy, in love, and about to announce their engagement.Meanwhile, Zena's brother, Greg, hopes to persuade the beautiful Rose Conelly to meet his family and begin the next stage of their relationship.Everything seems to be going well for the Martins. Until their beloved father tragically dies of a heart attack and long-buried secrets come to light, changing everything.Now Zena begins to doubt her happiness with the kind-hearted Jake and Greg is heartbroken when Rose leaves town without any explanation. But it is their mother's secret that is the most shocking of all.When everything is revealed, what will be left of Zena and Greg's once-optimistic future?

Meet Janine Lewis. A single mum of three and Manchester's newest detective chief inspector. Her cheating husband walked out the day she got promoted. Now she's six months pregnant with his baby and in charge of her first murder case.The body of a deputy head teacher is found on a lonely allotment. Gutted - his stomach sliced open - and left for dead.The only witnesses are a dying elderly man and a seven-year-old girl.And now the prime suspect has disappeared . . .