Helen H Durrant

Dead Jealous Helen H Durrant

Two mothers have lost their daughters - 17 years apart. Can Detective Calladine bring them justice?

A teenage girl's body is found in the back of a car on the notorious Hobfield housing estate. No one had reported her missing, but she's been dead for a week.

Meanwhile, an old jar is brought into the station. It was found carefully wrapped in a blanket, with a child's pink hairclip. The jar contains ashes and bone fragments.

Seventeen years ago, Detective Tom Calladine had been part of a team investigating the disappearance of Jessica Wilkins. Her mother had taken her to Leesdon Park one summer afternoon. She went to get the child an ice cream, and when she returned her daughter was gone. Over the years there were no sightings, no witnesses - nothing. Will there finally be closure for this unsolved mystery?

And why was the girl found in the car killed, and why are her friends not telling the police the whole story?

Detectives Tom Calladine and Ruth Bayliss will unravel a web of lies and pain in this fast-moving and gripping crime mystery.