When a young girl vanishes one dark night in Lincolnshire, her father refuses to worry. Even the mother thinks she’ll be home in a few days. But the few days becomes a week, the weeks become months, the months become a year, and the year becomes five.

BThe investigation falls to DCI Freya Bloom and her team, who soon discover that not only was Deborah Jarvis a loner, but her death wasn’t the first.