A place of execution
When thirteen-year-old Alison Carter disappears from an isolated Derbyshire hamlet one December day in 1963, it is the start of policeman George Bennett's most notorious case. Years later, he tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, the story of a murder case with no body, and investigation with too many dead ends and blank faces. But when the book is poised for publication, George Bennett tries to pull the plug. He has new information that threatens the very foundations of his existence. Catherine is forced to reinvestigate the past, with results that turn the world upside down.