After leaving home to return to school, teenager Valerie Taylor had vanished and the trail had gone cold. Two years after her disappearance somebody decides to supply new evidence for the case. Other Inspector Morse books include "Last Bus to Woodstock".
What starts out as a simple missing person’s case, morphs into complex tale of greed power and lust. Valerie Taylor, while coming back from school, disappears without a trace and without any evidence the case goes cold. However two years later, when a letter from Valerie is received by her parents stating that she is fine, Inspector Morse is assigned to investigate the matter. Little does he realize there is more to this case than just a disappearance because in the peaceful university town ...