Meet Kent’s former Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman. She’s given everything to rise to the top. She’s menopausal, overworked — and the only one who can crack this impossible case. Please note, this book was previously published as Green and Pleasant Land. Retirement doesn’t suit Fran. Fresh from honeymoon, she volunteers to reopen an unsolved case. To find the trail’s so cold, it’s frozen. Twenty years ago, a glamorous footballer’s wife, Natalie Foreman, drove her car out into the woods. With her two young sons in the back and a blizzard raging all around. That was the last time anyone saw Natalie and her eldest son. Dead or alive.

A passerby stumbled on her car, abandoned at the roadside. With the body of her youngest son still strapped in his car seat. What made Natalie walk away from her perfect life — and her famous footballer husband?

Fran’s convinced there’s more to this power couple than meets the eye. Especially when she finds herself frozen out at every turn: by Natalie’s parents and by surly officers keen to cover their backs . . .

Someone out there knows the truth. And they will stop at nothing to keep their shocking secrets.