they know who did it perhaps not consciously perhaps not yet but they know when eightyearold daisy mason vanishes from her familys oxford home during a costume party detective inspector adam fawley knows that nine times out of ten the offender is someone close to home and daisys family is certainly strangeher mother is obsessed with keeping up appearances while her father is cold and defensive under questioning and then theres daisys little brother so withdrawn and uncommunicative di fawley works against the clock to find any trace of the little girl but its as if she disappeared into thin airno one saw anything no one knows anything but everyone has an opinion and everyone it seems has a secret to conceal