Missing in the Dying Light

Lottie is found dead in the swimming pool of a luxurious Devon holiday home just as a scorching heatwave begins the summer, and DI Matthew Venn is called to make sense of it.

The house belongs to the family of her best friend, Hannah, who is nowhere to be found.

Days earlier the two girls had arrived to celebrate finishing their school exams, soon angering the small community with inflammatory videos that mocked the place as parochial.

When another tragedy follows, Venn's team faces a place thick with secrets, and the rising political profile of Hannah's father, Paul Armstrong, brings fierce media attention along with his powerful enemies.

Holidaymakers flood in with the heat, and some of them seem tied more closely to the Armstrong family than anyone first supposed.

Venn knows the truth is more likely to sit in what people will not say than in anything they offer freely.