Child's Play
by Alison Taylor
Surrounded by dense, dark woodland, the Hermitage is an exclusive school for girls. One balmy summer's night, Sukie Melville leaves her room and vanishes into the woods. The following day her body is pulled from the waters of the Menai Strait.
When Superintendent Michael McKenna and his team move in to
investigate the death, the school's charismatic headmistress insists it
was suicide - but McKenna isn't so sure.
With the truth inextricably bound up in the secrets and lies of the
young girls, the investigation soon proves to be as labyrinthine as the
woods surrounding the school.
Scratching the glossy surface, McKenna uncovers a dark and dangerous ethos underpinning the school. Nothing in that dangerous hot bed of passionate, brooding resentments is
what it seems, and no one can be trusted, least of all Freya Scott, to
whom McKenna is recklessly attracted.
When Superintendent Michael McKenna and his team move in to
investigate the death, the school's charismatic headmistress insists it
was suicide - but McKenna isn't so sure.
With the truth inextricably bound up in the secrets and lies of the
young girls, the investigation soon proves to be as labyrinthine as the
woods surrounding the school.
Scratching the glossy surface, McKenna uncovers a dark and dangerous ethos underpinning the school. Nothing in that dangerous hot bed of passionate, brooding resentments is
what it seems, and no one can be trusted, least of all Freya Scott, to
whom McKenna is recklessly attracted.