Samantha Falconer, four times judo champion, now runs an investigation agency in London. When her brother Mark asks her to investigate the disappearance of the wife of his friend John O’Connor, Sam finds herself back in Oxford, just where she doesn’t want to be. For Sam is still haunted by the memory of her discovery of the body of a murdered four-year-old girl when she was a rookie police officer.
Taking the case also brings her back into contact with her ex-lover police detective Phil—something else she would rather avoid. As she pursues her enquires in search of the missing Meg O’Connor, they seem to lead her to the University, and to Alice Knight.
But Sam has more than her current investigation on her mind, for she has received a letter that purports to be from her father who died in Ireland, twenty-eight years ago. Or did he?
Sam’s search for her own truth brings her face to face with all the family emotions which for years she has been running away from. Just who was her father? In some respects the pursuit of her own mystery was greater than that of the missing Meg.
This is Victoria Blake’s debut book, and I hope that it is the first in a series
as it shows great promise for future exploits in the life of Sam Falconer.
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Lizzie Hayes