Stephen is twelve and obsessed with a murder that shook his family a generation earlier: that of his uncle, who was then a child. But spending his Saturdays digging for the remains on the nearby moors doesn't change things, so Stephen, recently commended at school for his letter-writing skills, decides to contact the killer directly to ask for the location of his uncle's grave.

And after twenty years in prison, the serial killer Arnold Avery is quickened by the letter from the young boy...

I'm not a big crime reader but the premise drew me and I thought Bauer got the psychology of the characters exactly right: the withdrawn grandmother who still stands at the window all day waiting for her murdered child to come home, the struggling mum, the friendship between a confident, domineering boy and his quieter foil - the murderer, too, feels chillingly plausible.

To be released at tonight's Belfast BookCrossers meet-up. We're usually in the snug, to the right as you go into the pub, and any books not picked up during the evening are left on the windowsill...

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Caught at the March meeting.

An intriguing story, a different perspective on a murder

Caught at the BC NI April meetup.

Finally able to get down to the Post Office to send book to Spiderchic.

Received today! Thank you. I look forward to reading it.

Received today! Thank you. I look forward to reading it.