It is every mother's nightmare. Her child is missing, found murdered. Her lover is the prime suspect. It is every police officer's dread. A child murdered in a circumstantial case. It is every lawyer's dream. Twelve men and women will decide the verdict. But will justice be done?

It is every mother's nightmare. Her child is missing, found murdered. Her lover is the prime suspect. It is every police officer's dread. A child murdered in a circumstantial case. It is every lawyer's dream. Twelve men and women will decide the verdict. But will justice be done?

Helen Booth, a petite 15-year old goes missing on her paper round in south London. An anonymous phone call leads the police to a boathouse in Putney where they discover her blood-stained jacket and trainers. A murder inquiry is launched, headed by Detective Superintendent Michael Walker.

Continuing the Trial & Retribution story, James McCready has been granted leave to appeal and suggestions of police misconduct have left their mark. But did DS Michael Walker really frame an innocent man?

A derelict house is being demolished when workmen discover the remains of a young girl. Walker is far from happy at being assigned the seventeen-year-old murder case, especially as North's career is really taking off. However, things soon hot up when the murder team unearth more skeletons and Walker suddenly finds himself in charge of one of the biggest investigations in recent years. But when a secret has been buried for seventeen years, the path to justice is more tortuous than ever. Can Walker and his team expose the truth behind one family and their shadowy past? Meanwhile, North is struggling to keep it together at work after her recent miscarriage, and with an old flame back on the scene emotions are running high...Lynda La Plante, the winner of the Bafta 'Dennis Potter Writers Award'.

The last in the series - and the last of D S Walker, too...As DI Pat North battles with her first murder enquiry and her fiancé DCI Mike Walker strives for promotion, their personal and professional loyalties are tested to the limit. All around them families are ripped apart by violence and everyone discovers just how far they are willing to go to protect the ones they love.

THE UNFORGETTABLE LEGAL THRILLER FROM THE LEGENDARY LYNDA LA PLANTE Identical and brutal assaults on three women. One woman survives to give a detailed description of her attacker. The police arrest a suspect, Damon Morton, confident he is their man. But three of his employees admit to the crimes, and Morton’s wife and girlfriend provide him with an alibi. They all declare Damon Morton innocent. The police know he did it. But if people lie under oath in a court of law ­- who can the jury believe?