One dark night in the Shropshire Hills, a car goes hurtling down the lonely track to Clive Quarry. Careering ever closer to the sheer drop at the end of the lane. It teeters on the edge for one heart-stopping moment. Then plummets down to the jagged rocks below.
Next morning, the bodies of two teenage boys are pulled from the twisted wreck. But the real mystery is what’s locked inside the boot.
The body of a frail old woman, wrapped in a woolly blanket. Nails painted, hair freshly dyed. Six months dead.
With no leads, no ID and no living witnesses, only Coroner Martha Gunn can piece together this Jane Doe’s story.
Someone out there knows exactly who the old woman is.
And they’ll do whatever it takes to keep Martha from the shocking truth . . .
Priscilla Masters was one of seven multi-racial children adopted by an orthopaedic surgeon and his Classics graduate wife. She trained as a nurse in the 1970s at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.
She is the author of more than thirty crime novels, including the popular DI Joanna Piercy series set in the Staffordshire Moorlands.
She currently lives on the Staffordshire/Shropshire border and has two sons and two grandsons.
My thoughts: This book has shocking moment on shocking moment, first a car goes over the edge of a quarry and two young men die and then the body of an old lady is found in the boot. But are the two events connected?
The two young men in the car dying is awful, but as the police look into the body in the boot, other sad and terrible stories come to light. In the end the death is tragic and moving, and the police find themselves unsure whether a crime has really taken place or just a sad tragedy.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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