For Lloyd and Hill, a kidnapping soon becomes a murder investigation . . . In an isolated cottage a woman has been bludgeoned to death; outside, a man has been crushed by a car. That, and a row overheard earlier that morning, is all Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd has to go on. Who is the dead woman? Where's her handbag? If it was a burglary, why the extreme violence? If it was a domestic, why is the handbag missing? Questions without answers. And Lloyd doesn't yet know how deeply involved in the enquiry Judy Hill has become - nor how profoundly it will affect her . . .