The Missing and the Dead (DI Thomas Maitland 1) : A missing teacher, a disgraced detective, and a deadly obsession-where guilt and revenge collide.

'A slew of satisfying narrative twists' Barry Forshaw, Crime Time

It appeared that Helen McAllister – for whatever reason – had simply got out of the car sometime the previous morning, taking her keys and bag and phone with her, and walked away…

Ten years later there has been no trace found of the teacher who went missing from a small village on the last day of the school year.

Her lover Alice Hauser's accusations of impropriety on the part of the senior investigating officer, DI Thomas Maitla...