James, Peter Boeken

"Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the case of a missing woman in Brighton. Is this Roy Grace's most challenging case yet? A mystery that is leaving him totally confounded for the first time in his career. Most Sundays, Niall and Eden Paternoster like to go for a drive and visit country houses. She likes to look at them, he likes to dream that one day ... However, most weeks they also end up bickering about something or other. This particular Sunday he wants to get back to catch the start of the French Grand Prix but she insists they stop somewhere to buy cat litter. Reluctantly, he pulls into the car park of a large supermarket and waits while she dashes in. He waits. And waits. But Eden doesn't come back out, she's gone. When he gets home she's not there either, and none of their friends or family have heard from her. A few days later Niall is arrested on suspicion of her murder despite vigorously protesting his innocence. But as Roy Grace is called in to investigate the disappearance of Eden Paternoster, it soon transpires that nothing is as it seems"--

Lynn gripped the armchair, battling her inner terror. "I can't believe I'm thinking this, Ross. I'm not a violent person; I never even liked killing flies. Now I'm willing a stranger to die." A teenager's body is found off the Sussex coast, missing vital organs. Soon, two more bodies are discovered. Caitlin Beckett, a fifteen-year-old in Brighton, urgently needs a liver transplant. When the health system fails her, Lynn, her mother, turns to the internet and finds a broker for a black-market organ—at a steep price. Desperate, Lynn scrambles to raise the money. As Caitlin's condition worsens, the broker offers hope with a perfect match. Meanwhile, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, buoyed by his promotion and his girlfriend Cleo, is haunted by this new case, more than any before. Following the clues from the bodies leads him to a gang of child traffickers from Eastern Europe. Grace and his team must race against time to save a young street kid, while Lynn is determined to do anything to save her daughter’s life.