Without Trace

DISCOVER ONE OF THE UKS FAVOURITE CRIME WRITERS WITH OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD.She opened her mouth to scream, but he slapped something across her lips. The gag tasted of salt and mould, rough sacking on her tongue.With a terrifying certainty, she knew she was going to die.DI Geraldine Steel knows people go missing all the time; sometimes because they dont want to be found. So when her partner Ian asks her to look into the disappearance of his football-buddys girlfriend, her first instinct is to reassure him theres no need for concern.Until shes called to a suspected murder, and all her instincts tell her shes right about the identity of the victim.The young woman has earth and leaf mould and fragments of twigs in her long fair hair, her nose, her mouth, under her finger nails, clinging to her clothes. Its as if shed been completely encased in earth. And yet she was found on the pavement, at the side of a suburban road, where...