Ghost Girl: Volume 2 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781781857670)

A cold case is reopened in this intelligent, absorbing crime novel starring unique female sleuth Stella Darnell

It is a year since her father's death, but Stella Darnell has not moved on. She still cleans his house every day, leaving it spotless, as if he might return. Terry Darnell was Detective Chief Superintendent at Hammersmith police station, and now Stella has discovered an unsolved case in his darkroom: a folder of unlabeled photographs of deserted streets. The oldest photograph dates back to 1966. To a day when Mary Thornton, just 10 years old, is taking her little brother home from school in time for tea. That afternoon, as the Moors Murderers are sent to prison for life, Mary witnesses something that will haunt her forever. As Stella inches closer to the truth, the events of that day begin to haunt her too. . .

About the Author
Lesley Thomson went to the Universities of Brighton and Sussex. She is the author of The Detective's Daughter and A Kind of Vanishing, which won the People's Book Prize in 2010.