'This series is irresistible' LEE CHILD

'Atmospheric and chilling' ELLY GRIFFITHS

'Totally immersive' ANN CLEEVES

'My favourite new crime series' LUCY FOLEY

'Highly recommend' KARIN SLAUGHTER

When young nurse Claire Davidson goes missing on the riverbank, the only clues left behind are her phone and shoes.

People disappear all the time, but this case sparks an online frenzy. Amateur investigators descend on the rural idyll. Is Claire Davidson just the story of a swim that went wrong, or could there be truth to the conspiracies?

Then another woman is discovered dead in the river. Jake Jackson, a former detective who came to the countryside searching for peace, must investigate before more lives are lost.

'In some bright constellation of the literary universe, gleaming alongside Louise Penny and Tana French and Ann Cleeves and Elly Griffiths, there's Stig Abell, whose utterly splendid novels – densely plotted, vibrantly written – will absorb any reader of intelligent fiction' A. J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window