Several disappeared girls, one dead in the bogs and apparently no trace ... In the high moorlands of northern England, the body of the 14-year-old Saskia Morris, who disappeared the year before, is found. A short time later, another young girl is missing, also 14-year-old Amelie Goldsby. Scarborough police are alerted. Does a serial offender go about mischief? The media are quickly talking about the bog-killer, increasing the pressure on Detective Chief Inspector Caleb Hale. Detective Sergeant Kate Linville of Scotland Yard is also in the area to sell her former home. By chance, she makes the acquaintance of Amelie's completely desperate family, becomes an involuntary investigator in a drama that seems to have neither beginning nor end. And then suddenly there is no trace of any girl left ...
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