Making a Killing

Nick Vincent, who produces the true-crime program Infamous, gets word of a fresh theory about the 2016 killing of an eight-year-old girl in Oxford. Eager to test it on air, he sends a researcher to check the claims.

Weeks later, a dog walker stumbles on a woman's corpse, tied up and hidden in a shallow grave among the trees. Forensic results connect her to the vanished girl. Detective Chief Inspector Adam Fawley, who led the original inquiry, is brought back to head the new investigation. He recalls the case clearly, since it was his arrest that charged the girl's mother with murder, a conviction he now has reason to doubt.

As the enquiry unfolds, it raises more questions than it answers: what links the two crimes, where the missing girl has been all these years, and how she managed to vanish. For Fawley, the case is deeply personal. This is part of Cara Hunter's DI Adam Fawley series.