Talking to the dead

For Detective Constable Fiona Griffiths, her first murder really is a case of jumping in at the deep end - a woman and her six-year-old daughter killed with chilling brutality in a dingy flat where it seemed they'd been trying to hide themselves away. The crime-scene photos are certainly the kind that stir up strong emotions in even the most hardbitten of coppers, but the more Fiona studies them, the more she thinks there is a message that only she can read. Tracing the twisted path that led them to their deaths, quickly becomes an obsession for the young policewoman. But searching for the truth wherever it leads will mean taking a journey to the last place she wants to go - her own past.