The Sleeping and the Dead
Ann Cleeves
The Sleeping and the Dead
Ann Cleeves
WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD 2017
A vivid psychological suspense novel.
A diving instructor makes a gruesome discovery in Cranwell Lake - the body of a teenager who has clearly been in the water for many years. Detective Peter Porteous is called to the scene, and deduces from missing persons files that the corpse is Michael Grey, an enigmatic and secretive young man who was reported missing by his foster parents in 1972.
As the police investigation gets under way in Cranwell, on the other side of the country prison officer Hannah Morton is about to get the shock of her life. For Michael was her boyfriend, and she was with him the night he disappeared. The news report that a body has been found brings back dreaded and long buried memories from her past…
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