On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: A woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer.

On a September evening eleven years earlier, two seventeen-year-old girls vanished from the village without a trace. In a trial based only on circumstantial evidence, twenty-year-old Tobias Sartorius, Rita Cramer's son, was sentenced to ten years in prison. Bodenstein and Kirchhoff discover that Tobias, after serving his sentence, has now returned to his home town. Did the attack on his mother have something to do with his return?

In the village, Pia and Oliver encounter a wall of silence. When another young girl disappears, the events of the past seem to be repeating themselves in a disastrous manner. The investigation turns into a race against time, because for the villagers it is soon clear who the perpetrator is - and this time they are determined to take matters into their own hands.

A good read although it did go on a bit! A few times I thought the crime was going to be solved but I still had either 200, 150 100 pages whatever, to go & it would turn out to be another character with yet another hidden agenda - some were easy to spot, others were a bit more obscure & while I enjoyed the book I think a few less of these covert activities would have been better for making the story more credible - there was an awful lot of secrets in this little village!

As I said, it was a good read (reminded me in style of Erica Spindler's books) & while I'll certainly read more by this author should I come across them, at this point I won't be putting them on my wishlist.

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