"When the bones of a young woman, Kitty Sinn, who went missing without trace in Thailand, are discovered in the grounds of a school just outside London, an enduring mystery takes on a whole new twist. Kitty's boyfriend at the time and the man who reported her missing, comes forward and tells DI Ray Mason of the Met's Homicide Command that he knows what happened to Kitty, and who killed her. But soon he too has been shot dead. Now, the only link to Kitty lies 500 miles away in the Bordeaux countryside, where a middle-aged teacher, Charlotte Curtis, lives alone. But Charlotte is in terrible danger because she possesses a single piece of information that will blow Kitty's case wide open. Only two people know how to find her. One is private detective Tina Boyd, and the other is a man who wants her dead as quickly as possible."--