MEET DETECTIVE RUTHERFORD BARNES IN THIS BRILLIANT BRITISH CRIME SERIES FROM A SERVING POLICE OFFICER, PACKED FULL OF TWISTS. Barnes finally has the family he always longed for.

But someone is coming for them . .

. Detective Barnes crouches down by the body near the seafront.

Male, mid-twenties. The face is blue-white, mouth stretched open in a silent yawn.

Suddenly his eye is caught by an abrupt movement. A woman has fallen over on the pavement opposite.

'Looks like someone's feeling crook,' says Howlett, his detective constable. Then Barnes sees another person collapse nearby.

A young man, fit. He hasn't tripped.

His body starts to convulse on the ground. As panic spreads through the crowd, Barnes's mobile rings.

It's Tamsin, his normally unflappable partner. 'Barnes .

. .

' She sounds frantic. 'It's .

. .

it's Maggie. 'Barnes goes cold.

'What about her?''She was supposed to be at rugby practice. But she never showed up.

She's . .

. she's missing.

'His stepdaughter is missing - and Barnes has a very bad feeling about who might be responsible . .

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