To The Last Page

You get to know a lot about people during a crime investigation, particularly when the crime involves a missing person. When it's a child who has gone missing the police need to know as much about the child as soon as possible, and that's where you find out a lot about the parents as well. It's not just what they tell, there's just as much that can be revealed by what they aren't telling. What exactly that tells you, other than when something doesn't ring true, is what the investigator really needs to find out. In The Sleeping Season , Kelly Creighton's first DI Sloane thriller, matters can potentially be complicated by the location. You would think there's no reason why Belfast should be any different from any other part of the UK, but evidently things are different here, and people can have their reasons for keeping things quiet. It's true however that even the idea of a child going missing, potentially abducted, is itself something rare in Belfast...