Ash & Bone

In the depths of his Cornish hideaway retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's solitary life is disturbed by a call from his ex-wife telling him his seventeen-year-old daughter Katherine is running wild unbalanced by the abduction and rape he feels he should have prevented. Meanwhile in the heart of London the takedown of a violent criminal goes badly and Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch is uneasy about the reasons why an uneasiness that is compounded when she starts to believe she is being stalked. <p/>Maddy and Frank had a brief and clumsy encounter years before. In <em>Ash & Bone </em>their lives connect again when a second phone call persuades Elder out of retirement only to find that a cold case has a devastating present-day impact. <p/>