An audio book.
Sarah was killed at Uni by a boy she knew, because she refused to have sex. Her sister Jo was 11 at the time. Nathan, Sarah's boyfriend, was convicted. 16 years later he's due for release. A document-maker, Briony, who fancied Nathan at Uni, thinks he was innocent - a stalker was to blame - and wants to make a film about him. She enlists a lawyer.
Sarah has a brother living abroad about whom little is said. I wonder why he's there?
Jo has become a policewoman. She's kept the letters that Sarah sent her from Uni. She's involved with breaking an Albanian child prostitute racket and they want to take revenge. She fears there's an informer among the police. She volunteers for undercover work with a different team. She has to use her looks to befriend someone whose family imports arms - a honeytrap.
The mission is successful. She has a one-night-stand (inexplicably) with her boss's boss and feels sorry for entrapping the criminal. Briony dies just after interviewing another fellow student, Cynthia. Suicide. Or was it?
Her father comes onto the scene - remarried, rich. He reveals that he paid Sarah to have an abortion. Another side of Nathan emerges - wanting to cut Briony out of the deal to have more money for himself; wanting to use Jo as a replacement for Sarah. He tells Jo's mother that he owed money for drugs and thought an enforcer had got Sarah to send him a message.
An acid attack is aimed at Sarah. It misses. Money appears in her account. She's suspended. The doc-makers use secret cameras to get evidence. Turns out that the boss's boss Vasey is married to Cynthia who'd always suspected that her then boyfriend Vasey committed the murder. Vasey has threatened her. The aborted child was Vasey's.
There are a few language infelicities -
- "The building was triangular in shape"
- "Alison heaved an audible sigh" ... "a pause followed by an audible sigh"
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