THERE WAS AND THERE WASN’T

"Shouts and banging. What could it be? The last thing he felt like was getting involved in an argument, yet this didn’t sound like an argument. For a start, he could only make out one voice, not two. It was a girl’s voice, and the tone wasn’t so much angry as agitated. Or desperate. He hurried on until the derelict cottage at the end of the lane came into sight. And there she was: a young woman of about twenty, banging on the front door with her fists while shouting for someone to let her in." • Early one morning, a young man goes for a walk in the countryside. He chances upon a girl who tells him an extraordinary story of kidnap and murder. But is she telling the truth? Gradually, reluctantly, and against his friends’ advice, the man is drawn deeper and deeper into a strange and deadly plot until he arrives at the heart of the mystery…