An immigrant's mysterious death sets off a chilling hunt for the truth--a gripping crime novel from the author of Missing Presumed.Newly married and navigating life with a toddler as well as her adopted adolescent son Manon Bradshaw is happy to be working part-time in the cold cases department of the Cambridgeshire police force a job which allows her to potter in coffAn immigrant's mysterious death sets off a chilling hunt for the truth--a gripping crime novel from the author of Missing Presumed.Newly married and navigating life with a toddler as well as her adopted adolescent son Manon Bradshaw is happy to be working part-time in the cold cases department of the Cambridgeshire police force a job which allows her to potter in coffee in hand and log on for a spot of internet shopping--precisely what she had in mind when she thought of work-life balance. But beneath the surface Manon is struggling with the day-to-day realities of what she assumed would be domestic bliss: fights about whose turn it is to clean the kitchen the bewildering fatigue of having a young child in her forties and the fact that she is going to couple's counseling alone because her husband feels it would just be her complaining.But when Manon is on a walk with her two-year-old son in a peaceful suburban neighborhood and discovers the body of a Lithuanian immigrant hanging from a tree with a mysterious note attached she knows her life is about to change. Suddenly she is back on the job full-force trying to solve the suicide--or is it a murder--in what may be the most dangerous and demanding case of her life.(less)