The third novel from the author of The Burning Men and The Killing Choice, featuring DI Alex Fin and DCI Mattie Paulsen.\n\nSadie Nicholls has been found dead, brutally and strangely murdered, in her South East London flat. Her little boy is missing.\n\nDI Alex Finn and DC Mattie Paulsen know that, in the case of a missing child, it's the first 24 hours that count. They don't have many left to find out where Sadie's son might be and the identity of her killer. Why would anyone want a struggling single mother, loved by many, dead?\n\nBut when they realise a similar crime was committed at the same house nearly 20 years ago, a question is on everyone's lips: is this more than just a coincidence?\n\nThis is third in Will Shindler's Finn and Paulsen series - a British detective series that ranks with Mark Billingham, M.J. Arlidge and Stuart MacBride.