mass market paperback, 336 pages
English language
Published March 2, 1997 by Ivy Books.
Valerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more than two years ago. Inspector Morse is sure she's dead. But if she is, who forged the letter to her parents saying "I am alright so don't worry"? Never has a woman provided Morse with such a challenge, for each time the pieces of the jigsaw start falling into place, someone scatters them again. So Valerie remains as tantalizingly elusive as ever. Morse prefers a body—a body dead from unnatural causes. And very soon he gets one…
2nd book in the series and I now have a grip on who’s who and not getting messed up from the tv shows. This had my head spinning with the leads, false leads and such. Quite liked this. Still having to remember to think like the mid 70’s time period it was written and set in.
