DS Manon Bradshaw is a messed-up,big-hearted detective in the best tradition ‘Harriet Lane Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow. Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to sleep after yet another Internet date – the murmuring of her police radio her only solace.Over the airwaves come reports of a missing woman – door ajar and a spatter of blood on the kítchen floor. Manon knows the first 72 hours are critical: you find her, or you look for a body. And as soon as she sees a pícture of Edith Hind, a Cambridge post-graduate from a well-connected family, she knows this case will be big. Is Edith alive or dead? Was her ‘complex love life’ at the heart of her disappearance? And when a body is found, is it the end or only the beginning? Intelligent and gripping….