The body of a teenage girl is found two days after being reported missing. A discussion with the pathologist reveals that another girl was found in similar circumstances only her murder never made it into the press. When DS Kevin Coupland looks into the earlier case he finds out-dated views and social stereotyping have thwarted the investigation from the beginning.
Along with Acting DS Chris Ashcroft he lifts the lid on a world where victims are defined by their postcode, where certain crimes are written off as a ‘lifestyle.' Yet beneath a layer of public indifference lies a world far darker than Coupland thought possible.
Just when Coupland thinks he's getting closer to the perpetrators a child goes missing, blowing everything he thought he'd discovered out of the water.
