Publisher's Synopsis
It is almost midnight on Halloween when firefighters find the body of Shayla Richards, a young black girl, high on Harden Moor, and photographs taken at the scene suggest a ritual sacrifice. As DI John Handford and DS Khalid Ali begin the murder enquiry they discover that Shayla had been at the centre of a previous police investigation with equally disturbing implications. The police find themselves caught between factions who insist the dead girl had been a compulsive liar, and Handford finds himself pursuing a man without a past. In fact there are those who wonder if he really exists...
