McGown, Jill

When the body of 15 year old Natalie Ouspensky is found strangled near a public park in Stansfield, England, Detective Inspector Judy Hill and Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd have their work cut out for them. For Natalie wasn't quite the innocent her mother believes, and her classmates at Oakland School guard Natalie's secrets, and their own, like life itself. Then a shred of evidence points Hill and Lloyd in the right, and decidedly deadly, direction.

When the owners of a struggling detective agency are found asphyxiated in their car, Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd rejects the majority opinion that they committed suicide. And his theory, that they were murdered, becomes even more likely when the doomed couple's one client, wealthy Mrs. Angela Esterbrook, is found shot to death.

England's Inspector Lloyd investigates the role--if any--of a hapless young ex-con in two new crimes, including the murder of the mother of his underage lover.