Missing, presumed

A RICHARD & JUDY BESTSELLER 72 HOURS TO FIND HER... `Hits the sweet spot between literary and crime fiction - Gripping' ERIN KELLY `For those who love their crime fiction rich in psychology, beautifully written and laced with dark humour.

Dive in' LUCIE WHITEHOUSE Mid-December, and Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow.

Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to sleep after yet another soul-destroying Internet date - the low murmuring of her police radio her only solace. Over the airwaves come reports of a missing woman - door ajar, keys and phone left behind, a spatter of blood on the kitchen floor.

Manon knows the first 72 hours are critical: you find her, or you look for a body. And as soon as she sees a picture of Edith Hind, a Cambridge post-graduate from a well-connected family, she knows this case will be big. Is Edith alive or dead? Was her `complex love life' at the heart of her disappearance, as a senior officer tells the increasingly hungry press? And when a body is found, is it the end or only the beginning?