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VOICES IN THE DARKNESS<br/><br/>A teenage girl is missing. <br/>Eleanor Rawlins is an unworldly loner, who would rather be climbing than fingering a smart phone.<br/>A teacher is found dead in the woods. Is it suicide or murder? <br/><br/>It’s too late for DI Irene Nicholson – retirement is due. <br/>But she can’t let go.<br/>She revives her old partnership with ex-DI Fletcher to uncertainly follow the flimsiest of tenuous clues, driven only by their sceptical curiosity and the haunting premonition of another teenager.<br/><br/>‘I’ve seen it . . . there are big hills on either side. <br/>It’s cold. <br/>Blue sky. <br/>Eagles floating high up. <br/>There’s a lake. <br/>The wind is blowing. <br/>The girl is walking towards you. <br/>She’s not well . . . something terrible has happened . . . her eyes are . . .’<br/><br/>Terrible crimes were committed in the 1980s . . . by people in positions of trust and authority.<br/>How much longer can they be kept secret?